Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
John Masefield
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight... →
My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.
Harry Mathews
Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge... →
Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say... →
The crown of literature is poetry.
W. Somerset Maugham
I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.
Callan McAuliffe
Plagiarism has been around far longer than the Internet. In fact, I had a poem published in 'Seventeen' magazine when I was 15 years old.... →
Megan McCafferty
Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.
Vladimir Nabokov
I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and... →
Azar Nafisi