The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of... →
James Fenton
I like to write poetry.
Rebecca Ferguson
But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to... →
Ian Hamilton Finlay
But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I... →
For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this... →
Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was... →
People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love.
Helen Fisher
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
Robert Fitzgerald
Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.
Gustave Flaubert