I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.
David Antin
While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't... →
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas... →
If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose... →
Simon Armitage
People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.
I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an... →
A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.
Karen Armstrong
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
Matthew Arnold
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
Antonin Artaud