Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.
Rick Fox
Every single soul is a poem.
Michael Franti
I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.
Nell Freudenberger
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Robert Frost
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of... →
Christopher Fry
I'm not sure about prizes. I don't know how far you can seriously raise public consciousness about poetry. Having a 'National Poetry... →
John Fuller