#poe

In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things. ↗

— Rita Dove

#enjoy #i #i love #lots #love

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early. ↗

— Rita Dove

#come #curriculum #early #get #instead

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something. ↗

— Rita Dove

#ecstasy #feel #i #i feel #me

It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say. ↗

— David Duchovny

#like #poem #really #say #trying

Dancing is the poetry of the foot. ↗

— John Dryden

#foot #poetry

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#curriculum #deal #enabling #help #i

I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#does #fine #go #i #i always

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#am #asked #i #i am #pleased

If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#be grateful #civil #coming #event #felt

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#creative #each #fictional #i #irritant