Poetry Quotes

I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection.

Neil Gaiman

We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.

Naomi Klein

Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.

Nancy Lublin

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

Natalie Merchant

All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed.

Norman MacCaig

And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.

Norman MacCaig

And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.

Norman MacCaig

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.

Norman MacCaig

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

Norman MacCaig

I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.

Norman MacCaig

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by...

Norman MacCaig

When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.

Norman MacCaig

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

Nathalie Sarraute

Being able to say something lyrically, to say something that will do more than just be words, is really hard. It's easy to do when you're writing a chapter of a book or writing poetry, but it's really hard to do when you're confined to a melody line.

Nikki Sixx

I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may hav...

Natasha Trethewey

Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

Natasha Trethewey

The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was ...

Natasha Trethewey

I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.

Natasha Trethewey

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

Natasha Trethewey

Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone.

Natasha Trethewey

'NewsHour' is very interested in poetry, but they're also interested in not just that something's cute to add on at the end of their programming, but something that actually is integrated into the news.

Natasha Trethewey