I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.
Isaac Rosenberg
Whatever brief delights it provides, mere strangeness in poetry and prose eventually leaves us cold, especially when we suspect the writer is... →
Roger Rosenblatt
Most of the time, as an artist, I can be self-indulgent, fulfilling my own impulses, embracing imagery that contains poetry on my own terms, without... →
Clifford Ross
Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.
David Lee Roth
Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
Joseph Roux
Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself... →
J. K. Rowling
On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts... →
Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
Muriel Rukeyser