The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart. Ryszard Kapuscinski
I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart. Judy Collins
A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk. Lisa Bonet
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose. Jerry B. Jenkins
The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry. Mark Knopfler
It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act? Robin Wright Penn
I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem. Marilyn Hacker
When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence. Marilyn Hacker
Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it. Marilyn Hacker
An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive. John Barton
Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools. John Barton
In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change. John Barton
If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect. John Barton
My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end. John Barton
I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences. Shelby Lynne
There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans. Helen Thomas
It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms. John Millington Synge
I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it. Jim Jarmusch