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If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
M. H. Abrams
I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.
Robert Morgan
That's one of the great things about poetry one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.
Paul Muldoon
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
Anna Jameson
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
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
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
Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.
J. Courtney Sullivan
It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
Michel de Montaigne
A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
Jules Renard
He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech.
John Colville
A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.
Eugene Field
It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
Samantha Morton
There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.
Rita Dove
Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training.
David Hunt
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
Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.
Jack Prelutsky
I never really liked poetry readings I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.
Leonard Cohen
I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.
Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.
Robert W. Service
