I have my Poetry 180 project, which I've made my main project. We encourage high schools, because that's really where, for most people, poetry dies off and gets buried under other adolescent pursuits. Billy Collins adolescentburyencourage Change image and share on social
After attending the gymnasium between my eighth and seventeenth years, I studied classical philology at Berlin University for two years under Boeckh and Lachmann, and with the friendly support of Emanuel Geibel and Franz Kugler, I dabbled in all sorts of poetry. Paul Heyse attendberlinboeckh share on social
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. Carl Sandburg makephantompoetry Change image and share on social
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose. Tao Lin bookpoetryprose Change image and share on social
Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home. Seamus Heaney artdomestichome Change image and share on social
I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban 'beat' poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music. Oscar Hijuelos beatcollegecontemporary share on social
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. Edgar Allan Poe passionpoetrypurpose Change image and share on social
For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music. Eugenio Montale addbearhammer Change image and share on social
I'm a great believer in poetry out of the classroom, in public places, on subways, trains, on cocktail napkins. I'd rather have my poems on the subway than around the seminar table at an MFA program. Billy Collins believerclassroomcocktail Change image and share on social
