Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99... →
Neil deGrasse Tyson
We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens... →
I don't want to bury anything in poetry.
Sharon Van Etten
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
Paul Valery
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding... →
Raoul Vaneigem
If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.
Helen Vendler
Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.
I would like to spend more time with Spanish poetry. I know French better than Spanish, but Spanish was my first language, and my father spoke it to... →
I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
Abraham Verghese