Poetry

Poetry is verbal compositions designed to convey experiences, ideas or emotions in a vivid and imaginative way; characterized by the use of language. Poetry allows the poet to express a myriad of feelings in a way that is easy for the audience to understand. Below are some of the greatest poetry quotes on the web.

"Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos."
― David Lee Roth
"High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this."
― Diane Wakoski
"Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don’t care; that’s what poetry is supposed to do."
― Diane Wakoski
"If you cannot be a poet, be the poem."
― David Carradine
"All the modern verse plays, they’re terrible; they’re mostly about the poetry. It’s more important that the play is first."
― Denis Johnson
"Children can write poetry and then, unless they’re poets, they stop when reach puberty."
― Dennis Potter
"Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind."
― Don Marquis
"Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground."
― Diane Wakoski
"I think that’s what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior."
― Diane Wakoski
"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

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