We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other. Naomi Klein
I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books. Simon Armitage
People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book. Simon Armitage
If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield. Simon Armitage
The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape? John C. Ransom
And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious. John C. Ransom
It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither. Gerard Manley Hopkins
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry. Randall Jarrell
Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays. Patrick White
Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind. J. Courtney Sullivan
I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats. J. Courtney Sullivan
Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga. J. Courtney Sullivan
Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into! Frank Iero
Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel's length, satisfies the reader. Ron Rash
Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem. Maxine Hong Kingston
All the modern verse plays, they're terrible they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first. Denis Johnson
Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. John Masefield