Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring.... →
Wislawa Szymborska
I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry.
Amber Tamblyn
I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do... →
Allen Tate
Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not... →
How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.
There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in... →
Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.
Bernie Taupin
Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of 7 or 8 years and which drove me... →
Bayard Taylor