Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
T. S. Eliot
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the... →
The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are... →
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
Havelock Ellis
I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.
Eminem
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate... →
Paul Engle
I have published in 'The New Yorker,' 'Holiday,' 'Life,' 'Mademoiselle,' 'American Heritage,'... →
All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city, and love.
I wanted to write poetry almost a little more than I wanted to eat.
I began to write poetry in high school, and would ride miles over sandy roads in the fine hills around Cedar Rapids, repeating the lines over and... →