Poetry is the deification of reality. Edith Sitwell deificationpoetryreality Change image and share on social
Sunday is a likely day to write a poem. Because poetry is a piece of language flying around: you'll find notebooks, something on your phone. It's about finding them and getting them off that crumpled piece of paper and onto my computer. Eileen Myles computercrumpleday share on social
Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have. Erica Jong expressionfeltfind Change image and share on social
When I was young, I struggled with authorship: with everything the word meant and failed to mean. Irish poetry was heavy with custom. Sometimes at night, when I tried to write, a ghost hand seemed to hold mine. Where could my life, my language fit in? Eavan Boland authorshipcustomfail share on social
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry. Erik Satie animalartinvent Change image and share on social
In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry. Edward Hirsch callcultureexpressive Change image and share on social
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready. Eugenio Montale artgrasppaper Change image and share on social
My mother wrote poetry when I was young - I have an early memory of the sound of her typewriter - and my father told me inventive bedtime stories. Eula Biss bedtimeearlyfather Change image and share on social
Translated poetry filled the no-man's-land between my own work and other writers', and I found this fascinating to explore. Edwin Morgan explorefascinatefill Change image and share on social
