Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets. Bernie Taupin on poetry
You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work. Phyllis Gotlieb on poetry
This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery of my poetry - which was very personal and cathartic at the time- was very moving to folks. People thought that I was an actress because of my delivery, when I was just dropping into the work and really pouring out my soul. Sonja Sohn on poetry
As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into. Jhene Aiko on poetry
Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level. Rick Fox on poetry
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. Stephen Spender on poetry
The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology. Basil Bunting on poetry
I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length. John Ashbery on poetry
What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing. Fernand Leger on poetry
So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us. Tracy K. Smith on poetry
Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her. David Lehman on poetry
The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry. Reynolds Price on poetry
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. John Andrew Holmes on poetry
Poetry is a sort of homecoming. Paul Celan on poetry
Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something. Amy Clampitt on poetry
Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence. Edmund Clarence Stedman on poetry
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence. J. G. Stedman on poetry
For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss. Edward Dowden on poetry
That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous. Galway Kinnell on poetry