poetry Quotes

I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.

Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.

If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

I love romantic poetry.

I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity to poetry and music.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.