Story Musgrave | poetry
Poetry is its own medium it’s very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.
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Mary Gordon | poetry
It was actually a women’s writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.
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Tea Obreht | poetry
When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what’s going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda’s poetry. I don’t actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don’t know why, but it calms me, calms my brain.
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Brian Harris | poetry
To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.
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James Dickey | poetry
I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that.
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Muriel Rukeyser | poetry
If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.
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Story Musgrave | poetry
When you’re looking that far out, you’re giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn’t need translation. It’s like poetry, it touches you.
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John Drinkwater | poetry
We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order – poetry and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.
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