Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you... →
Mary Karr
Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging.
Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.
My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine. The poem was very... →
Sarah Kay
Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit on paper, that... →
Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in... →
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.
Elia Kazan
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its... →
John Keats
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear... →
The poetry of the earth is never dead.