Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
Russell Baker
I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.
Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.
The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.
Caitriona Balfe
When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern... →
J. G. Ballard
Love is the poetry of the senses.
Honore de Balzac
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.
Lynda Barry
No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?
John Barton
Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.
An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.