And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.
John Crowe Ransom
The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?
Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability... →
Ron Rash
I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith... →
Feisal Abdul Rauf
At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
Satyajit Ray
Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry, and then people thought I... →
Spoken Reasons
Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.
Vanessa Redgrave
Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.
Ishmael Reed
The moment of change is the only poem.
Adrienne Rich
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.