Jazz and poetry both involve a structure that may be familiar and to some extent predictable. And then, you try to create as much surprise and... →
Robert Pinsky
The best argument for teaching poetry is to put a three-year-old or a four-year-old and read Dr. Seuss, or Robert Louis Stevenson, and to feel how... →
The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about what's in style, what's current, what are the trends.... →
When I was a teenager, just about the only thing I could do right was play music. In my graduating class, I was certainly not voted 'Most... →
The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.
Sylvia Plath
Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the... →
Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Plato
I had a strong propensity, which I still have, to be invisible. In grade school, I'd try to disappear and become formless. I lived in a very... →
Amanda Plummer
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Plutarch