Re-engage young people, who have long been disenfranchised, through poetry.
Poetry Quotes
Alexander Pope leads, followed by Florence Earle Coates, Muriel Rukeyser and Horace. Samuel Johnson’s definition in Lives of the English Poets (1779), poetry as the art of uniting pleasure with truth by calling imagination to the help of reason, is the best-sourced entry, and Thoreau’s couplet from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849) is the saddest: his life was the poem he would have written, but he could not both live it and utter it.
Flagged: “All poetry is misrepresentation,” credited to Jeremy Bentham and disputed; a triplet on three poets from three distant ages, credited to Dryden and disputed; and “The crown of literature is poetry,” credited to Somerset Maugham and marked misattributed.
Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves.
Poetry is foreign to us, we do not let it enter our daily lives.
W C Williams' poetry is: The Imagism of 1912, self-transduced.
I know it's weird, but it does make it easier to write poetry in perl.
Why, the very element of poetry is faith—faith in the beautiful, the divine, and the true.
...modern poetry is necessarily obscure; if the reader can’t get it, let him eat Browning...
...whether they write poems or don’t write poems, poets are best.
I think poetry ultimately is a more communal activity than fiction, but I love both equally.