Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.
Marilyn Hacker
Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the... →
When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences... →
I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing... →
Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but... →
I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone... →
Mark Haddon
Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.
Johann Georg Hamann
As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a... →
Gary Hamel
Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.
Mohsin Hamid
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
Edith Hamilton