My strong suits, coming from poetry, will naturally be description, which I love doing. It comes very easily, and possibly structure, up to a point.
Tobias Hill
Poetry is not a genre in harmo…
Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.
Octavio Paz
For a lot of people, well-mean…
For a lot of people, well-meaning teaching has made poetry seem arcane, difficult, a kind of brown-knotting medicine that might be good for you but doesn't taste so good. So I tried to make a collection of poetry that would be fun. And that would bring out poetry as an art, rather than the challenge to say smart things.
Robert Pinsky
We love, you know, children lo…
We love, you know, children love the ingredients of poetry. And then they go into this tunnel that we call adolescence, and when they come out of it, they hate poetry.
Billy Collins
Science fiction, outside of po…
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
Theodore Sturgeon
When I was asked to be Writer …
When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.
Norman MacCaig
Im so happy to be an advocate …
I'm so happy to be an advocate for poetry.
Edward Hirsch
Im not a great poetry fan. …
I'm not a great poetry fan.
Rupert Everett
Often I find that poems predic…
Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
Erica Jong
Written poetry is worth readin…
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
Antonin Artaud