Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness.

George W. Romney

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

James Broughton

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

John Donne

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

James Joyce

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

John Keats

I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.

Jack Prelutsky

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

Maya Angelou

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

Maya Angelou

One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among certain populations.

Marilynne Robinson

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

I believe poetry has very little to do with memory.

Nick Flynn

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

Nathalie Sarraute

From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.

Natasha Trethewey

The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.

Paul Muldoon

That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.

Robert Creeley

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.

Robert Morgan

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

Robert Morgan

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

Robert Morgan

Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.

Robert Morgan

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.

Robert Morgan

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

Simon Armitage