Quotes About Poetry

People can put their best poems straight onto the web.

You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, there's a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, there's so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them.

NASA is my favorite website. The universe with its abstract nature attracts me. The abstract element in my poetry comes from there.

I don't want to write poems about the royal wedding. I would have to be moved by the event.

I think the biggest thing that I have to do is to remind people that poetry is there for us to turn to not only to remind us that we're not alone - for example, if we are grieving the loss of someone - but also to help us celebrate our joys. That's why so many people I know who've gotten married will have a poem read at the wedding.

I wore a cloak for many years, I had long hair, I may have had a drop earring for a week and I fancied myself as a philosopher poet but was somewhere more in the gay female leisure pirate.

I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.

When we talk to somebody and we want to be nice or polite or show our more beautiful side, we try to use the best words that we know. This is what poets are doing. They are cleaning the words, they are inventing the sentiments, they are giving us a way to communicate.

In the poetry of immigrants, nostalgia is as common as confetti at parades or platitudes at political conventions.

By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation: those of the politician, the salesman or the charlatan... In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential.

That's another pompous expression that is out of fashion, to say that poetry is a gift. It sounds pompous because you say, 'Who gave you the gift, and what is this gift?' And the gift is where I am; the gift is what I have come out of, the people around me who, I think, are beautiful people.

Find a poet whose style you like, emulate that style, then deal with things that you know about - don't waste your time looking for your own style.' I wish I could remember who told me that, because I'd like to congraulate him. I've emulated all the old guys - Tennyson, Alexander Pope.

In bohemian circles, we were very aware that poetry was missing from popular culture.

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.

Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides.

Film and TV are the most popular mediums in America. Literature and poetry are possibly the most under-recognized art forms.

Rupi Kaur is an author and poet who posts the most beautiful, thought-provoking excerpts on her Instagram.

I was well read and knew languages, but I didn't want to become Ezra Pound. I wanted to write poetry that people like my parents might respond to.

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.

I love, loved, loved 'We Real Cool' by Gwendolyn Brooks.

Growing up as a kid, I took creative writing classes, and I was always into poetry.

Most Billy Joel songs make me want to cry a little.

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.