For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry. Paul Muldoon
That's one of the great things about poetry one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were. Paul Muldoon
The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives. Paul Muldoon
We simply have not kept in touch with poetry. Paul Muldoon
I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does. Charles Olson
I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since. Ray Manzarek
I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went. Paul Auster
I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table. Paul Auster
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army. John Ashbery
In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn. Lawrence Summers
I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. Keith Haring
Music is my thing. It's my thing it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me it's Christmas to me religion to me poetry to me. Ryan Adams
The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across. Mike Leigh
On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there. Michael Cunningham
Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry. Julie Taymor
I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano. Gordon Getty
Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say. Compay Segundo
Poetry can't cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die. Maurice Saatchi
A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being. John Drinkwater
Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them. John Drinkwater