"Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture." ― Juan Ramon Jimenez Topic(s): Poetry More In Poetry "I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations; and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry."― Andrew Motion "If you don’t have any fight in you, you might as well be dead."― Scott Caan "For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don’t have control over whether this feeling is in me or not."― Ian Hamilton Finlay