I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to conclusions. Chrisette Michele on poetry
The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. Gilbert Murray on poetry
Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is. James Branch Cabell on poetry
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 on poetry
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 on poetry
People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book. Simon Armitage on poetry
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 on poetry
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 on poetry
The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape? John C. Ransom on poetry
And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious. John C. Ransom on poetry
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 on poetry
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 on poetry
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 on poetry
Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind. J. Courtney Sullivan on poetry
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 on poetry
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 on poetry
Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into! Frank Iero on poetry
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 on poetry