Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose. Jerry B. Jenkins bookdiversiongil Change image and share on social
I teach a lecture course on American poetry to as many as 150 students. For a lot of them, it's their only elective, so this is their one shot. They'll take the Russian Novel or American Poetry, so I want to give them the high points, the inescapable poets. Robert Hass americanelectivegive share on social
The Vietnam War and the Iraq war, in different ways, both made me feel like I could not not address them. I'm very doubtful about the usefulness of poetry to do that. Robert Hass addressdoubtfulfeel Change image and share on social
With my fiction, I focused on chapters and overall conceptions, while in poetry, I crawled along in the trenches of each sentence, examining every word for a sign of a deeper significance. Philip Schultz chapterconceptioncrawl Change image and share on social
The length and shape of the poemetto, like the greater Romantic lyric of English poetry, lends itself to retrospection and commentary. Susan Stewart commentaryenglishgreat Change image and share on social
Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. Muhammad Iqbal artheirmake Change image and share on social
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. Salman Rushdie argumentfraudpoet Change image and share on social
There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry. Rita Dove advisecongressdistinct Change image and share on social
One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way. Paul Muldoon birchfrostpoem Change image and share on social
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests. Pablo Neruda bearforestgrow Change image and share on social
