"Well, if this is poetry, I’m certainly never going to write any myself." ― James Schuyler Topic(s): Poetry More From James Schuyler "However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can’t be much to it." More In Poetry "Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it’s the home of the extraordinary, the only home."― Philip Levine "Poetry is a mere drug, Sir."― George Farquhar "I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare’s sonnets."― Diane Wakoski