Poetry : (44)

" Poetry is not an art or a branch of art: it’s something more. " - Joseph Brodsky

" Poetry fills clubs, halls and venues. Poets and poems can talk to the deepest feelings and to the silliest. It can be like stand-up or rock music. It can be intimate, it can be pubic. " - Michael Rosen

" Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument – language and breath. " - Terrance Hayes

" I started writing poetry when I was in the fifth grade, just rhyming in class. " - Jay Rock

" Poetry doesn’t necessarily need to be some erudite thing. Your mom telling you a story is just as much poetry as some old 17th century thing that no one really understands. I think that those boundaries should be broken down! " - Arlo Parks

" The poet existed among the cave men; he will exist among men of the atomic age, for he is an inherent part of man. Even religions have been born from the need for poetry, which is a spiritual need, and it is through the grace of poetry that the divine spark lives forever in the human flint. " - Saint-John Perse

" I just sit down and write. I never know when. The most recent one is ‘Sarah Still,’ which is about our life, Sarah and me. It’s my favorite of all my poems. " - Shelley Berman

" For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic. " - James Broughton

" We have a motto at Naropa: ‘Keep the world safe for poetry.’ It’s humorous but has some real bite to it. If the world is safe for poetry, it can be safe for many other things. " - Anne Waldman

" The idea of a poem as a message in a bottle means that it’s sent out towards some future reader, and the reader who opens that bottle becomes the addressee of the literary text. " - Edward Hirsch