Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.
Diane WakoskiIf poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.
John BartonThe importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
Mahmoud DarwishIt is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.
Peter DavisonMy mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.
Philip LevinePoetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
Percy Bysshe Shelley