Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to... →
Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of... →
For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
Jerry B. Jenkins
I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and screenplays, but I always, always kept up with poetry... →
Blake Jenner
For me, poetry is always a search for order.
Elizabeth Jennings
You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you... →
Ken Jennings
I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of... →
Jewel