For me, poetry was... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through.
Shane Koyczan
For me, what I am making in the novel is a place to live. When I first switched from poetry to novels, I was asked why, and the metaphor I came up... →
Nicole Krauss
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
Louis Kronenberger
Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
Walter Savage Landor
As a kid, I loved 'Godot' because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, it's much more resonant.
Nathan Lane
I don't want to, in any way, characterize a race or a people or get accused of racial profiling, but the Irish, as lyrical and romantic as they... →
Stephen Lang
I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words to... →
Sidney Lanier
Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am going to try it; and am... →
To different minds, poetry may present different phases. To me, the reverent faith of the people I lived among, and their faithful everyday living... →
Lucy Larcom