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
I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up. Jenny Eclair actressconvincefall Change image and share on social
I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. Keith Haring enlightenfallpoetry Change image and share on social
Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry. Rita Dove dayinsignificantmake share on social
Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have always assumed, when I thought about it at all, that she had come out of the same wall of nothingness as the poetry, myth and legend that had absorbed me all my writing life. P. L. Travers absorbassumechild share on social
Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it. Marilyn Hacker aerobiceliminateexercise Change image and share on social
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from. David Whyte aspectempiricismfierce Change image and share on social
Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable. Jane Hirshfield gatherinviteluck Change image and share on social
My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding. Harry Mathews backkidlearn Change image and share on social
