I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry. Ben Okri Poetry
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. Stephen Spender Poetry
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Antonin Artaud Poetry
Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture. Juan Ramon Jimenez Poetry
The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot. Graham Joyce Poetry
How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see? Maria Montessori Poetry
I think of myself as an ambassador of the arts. In my heart of hearts, I know the world would be a more peaceful, tender place if we were more moved by the poetry around us. Tim Seibles Poetry
As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse. N. Scott Momaday Poetry
If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that. Glen Hansard Poetry
The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology. Basil Bunting Poetry
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. Ezra Pound Poetry
The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover. Bruce Dickinson Poetry
Fiction is supposed to be immersive and supposed to be entertaining and narrative, so structures have to be buried a little bit. If they come foregrounded too much, it stops being fiction and starts being poetry - something more concrete and out of time. Eleanor Catton Poetry
Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose. J. K. Rowling Poetry
What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing. Fernand Leger Poetry
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. E. M. Forster Poetry
Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does. Allen Ginsberg Poetry