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
Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level. Rick Fox
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. Stephen Spender
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
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
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
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
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
The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry. Reynolds Price
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
Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something. Amy Clampitt
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
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence. J. G. Stedman
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
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
Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life. William Rose Benet
Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody. Joshua Logan
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing. W. S. Merwin