#poetry

I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#always #american #american tradition #apolitical #comes

I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#almost #complex #even #exciting #great

PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#bogus #celebrates #general #good #good work

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent ↗

— Victor Hugo

#music #poetry #music

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. ↗

— Robert Graves

#either #money #then

No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#before #blaze #crest #every #flowers

To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed. ↗

— Brian Harris

#born #indeed #mouth #music #poetry

Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew. ↗

— Anthony Hecht

#dark #formulae #full #hidden #hints

It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#associate #borrowing #death #i #i can

Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training. ↗

— David Hunt

#done #fact #fun #had #i