When you're going through something, whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody, you often feel like 'Oh my God, I'm so overwhelmed I'm dealing with this huge thing on my own.' In fact, poetry's a nice reminder that, no, everybody goes through it. These are universal experiences. Caroline Kennedy on poetry
I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting. Amanda Seyfried on poetry
There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever. Anna Quindlen on poetry
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. Paul Valery on poetry
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. Jorge Luis Borges on poetry
I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation. Robert Morgan on poetry
Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. Muhammad Iqbal on poetry
Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets. Federico Fellini on poetry
Romance like a ghost escapes touching it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory. George William Curtis on poetry
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. Don Marquis on poetry
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry. Erik Satie on poetry
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. Russell Baker on poetry
I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic. Joni Mitchell on poetry
I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck. J. Michael Straczynski on poetry
Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love. Erica Jong on poetry
Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are. Julio Cortazar on poetry
You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, there's a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, there's so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them. Lena Dunham on poetry
It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it. John Cusack on poetry
You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it. Sherman Alexie on poetry
I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular. Amy Winehouse on poetry