Poetry Quotes

The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.

Philip Levine
- Work
- Poetry
Any extreme political creed brought only darkness in the long run; it lit up nothing. The best politics were those of caution, tolerance and moderation, Angus maintained, but such politics were, alas, also very dull, and certainly moved nobody to poetry.

Alexander McCall Smith
- Up
- Long
- Political

In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don't care about my cinema. In Europe, they don't know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick!

Jonas Mekas
- Poetry
When I attended the Berkeley Poetry Conference in 1965, I was very inspired. The collaboration of many poets from these alternative traditions - though there were not enough women - who were very much more influenced by, say, Asian forms or by Mantra or by thinking politically through their work in deeper ways really stuck with me.

Anne Waldman
- Work
- Thinking
- Women
France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.

Charles Baudelaire
- She
- Poetry
Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I write poems.

Aaron Belz
- Writing
- Feeling
- Play
For most of history poetry has been an oral art, it retains the vestiges of orality, an experience embedded in the sensuality of sounds.

Edward Hirsch
- Art
- Experience
- History
Who, except the poets, reads poetry?

Babette Deutsch
- Poetry
- Poet