Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl. Tahar Ben Jelloun extremelyfriendshippearl Change image and share on social
People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work. Mary Oliver fancypeoplepoetry Change image and share on social
In the winter of 1940, 'The Atlantic Monthly' invited Peter Viereck, a twenty-three-year-old Harvard graduate who had won the college's top essay and poetry prizes, to write about 'the meaning of young liberalism for the present age.' Tom Reiss ageatlanticcollege share on social
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. Plato historynearpoetry Change image and share on social
When you're 15, you're not really talking about the vicissitudes of fate and failed love and poetry and swordfighting - not a lot is necessarily touching on your own personal experience. Rory Kinnear experiencefailfate Change image and share on social
To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential. John Drinkwater concerndelightfulentertain Change image and share on social
Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by. Mahmoud Darwish armyattachmentbarbarity Change image and share on social
Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners. Robert Morgan americancaroliniancontemporary Change image and share on social
I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity. James Dickey feverpoetrytranquillity Change image and share on social
I don't want to bury anything in poetry. Sharon Van Etten burypoetry Change image and share on social
