I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the... →
Christina Perri
In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms and... →
Eugene H. Peterson
I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.
Sally Phillips
I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.
Pink
Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual... →
Steven Pinker
Poetry is a vocal art for me - but not necessarily a performative one. It might be reading to oneself or recalling some lines by memory.
Robert Pinsky
Poetry is not easy. Or should I say, real poetry is not easy.
For a lot of people, well-meaning teaching has made poetry seem arcane, difficult, a kind of brown-knotting medicine that might be good for you but... →
For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not a social class that considers poetry its... →
I don't like to have a calm, orderly, quiet place to work. I often compose while driving, compose in my head. It is true that I wrote my little... →