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
Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you. Ellen Bass intimatepoetryspeak Change image and share on social
True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know. Eugenio Montale initiateownerpeople Change image and share on social
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. Elia Kazan actdirectionpoetry Change image and share on social
The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories. Margaret Walker ancestralbodycollective Change image and share on social
Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. Mark Strand endfilterfinally Change image and share on social
If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable. Robert Morgan freememorablepoem Change image and share on social
I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies. Boris Pasternak assemblybenddiscuss Change image and share on social
Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time. Christopher Fry attentiondrawbackfull Change image and share on social
I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry. Robert Morgan encourageessencepoetry Change image and share on social
