Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the... →
Philip Levine
I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.
Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's... →
There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.
Gyorgy Ligeti
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
Tao Lin
The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pleasure from reading them.
Robert Littell
Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.
Joshua Logan
I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head; it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their offer. I told my agent this is our... →
Kenny Loggins
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across... →
Audre Lorde