I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.
F. Sionil Jose
I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel... →
Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.
Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of... →
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Joseph Joubert
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made... →
Graham Joyce
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
James Joyce
Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.
Ryszard Kapuscinski