I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity. – James Dickey
If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger. – Muriel Rukeyser
The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness. – Muriel Rukeyser
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. – Brian Harris
No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry – to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave. – Knut Hamsun
But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry – still. – Ian Hamilton Finlay
But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it. – Ian Hamilton Finlay
Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different. – Ian Hamilton Finlay
Poetry comes alive to me through recitation. – Natalie Merchant
Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses. – Vicente Aleixandre
Poetry does not consist of words alone there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement. – Samuel Prout
In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous. – Archie Shepp
Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words. – Anatole Broyard
Poetry is a totally different art than film. – Stan Brakhage
That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said. – Robert Creeley
I love to write poetry. – Shayne Ward
The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. – Gilbert Murray
People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book. – Simon Armitage
If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield. – Simon Armitage
The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism – how should poetry escape? – John C. Ransom
