Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen. Carol Ann Duffy on poetry
I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing. Carol Ann Duffy on poetry
I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way. Carol Ann Duffy on poetry
You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart. Carol Ann Duffy on poetry
I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life. Saul Williams on poetry
More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry. Saul Williams on poetry
I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written. Saul Williams on poetry
If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that. Glen Hansard on poetry
On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton. Richard Serra on poetry
I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will. Nigel Lythgoe on poetry
Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates. Franz Grillparzer on poetry
Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process. Franz Grillparzer on poetry
And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry. Lynn Johnston on poetry
Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people. Macklemore on poetry
If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money. Robert Graves on poetry
I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry. Amber Tamblyn on poetry
The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think. June Jordan on poetry
So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders. June Jordan on poetry
Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives. Richard Eyre on poetry