Anne Sexton Quotes

In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms and alliterations. You have to read poetry slow, slow, slow to absorb it all.

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.

No, I don't know any Emily Dickinson poems!

I read mostly poetry.

Form is endlessly interesting to me, and I love poetry as a formal enterprise.

They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound.

My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.

I like to write poetry.

I never had much education in English poetry as such.

I love to write poetry.

I love poetry - just to read it and be around it.

I was an English major, and I always wrote poems.

I'm really into poetry.

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.

Lyricists play with words.