I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. – Paul Dirac
If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. – A. E. Housman
I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting. – Janine Turner
We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine. – Jack Prelutsky
Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career. – Jack Prelutsky
There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry. – Gyorgy Ligeti
I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life – though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless. – Anne Stevenson
Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry. – Anne Stevenson
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. – Robert Fitzgerald
Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there. – Archibald MacLeish
Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values. – A. R. Ammons
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. – A. R. Ammons
The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance. – A. R. Ammons
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition. – A. R. Ammons
The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry. – Philip Levine
My mother carried on and supported us her ambition had been to write poetry and songs. – Philip Levine
In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc. – Juan Goytisolo
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry. – Paul Muldoon
The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives. – Paul Muldoon
We simply have not kept in touch with poetry. – Paul Muldoon
