It's always good to show that poetry isn't the little depressed lyric people believe it to be, that it's something bigger.
John Fuller
When I began, poetry was very academic. You published little pamphlets from fancy presses. It was rather... chaste. There wasn't much public... →
Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
Dennis Gabor
I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection.
Neil Gaiman
There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.
Hamlin Garland
Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and... →
Gordon Getty
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Khalil Gibran
'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
Andre Gide
Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than... →
Ernst Haas