John Fowles Quotes

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

I read mostly poetry.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.

I'm a wizard at poetry.

I'm a poet.

Anyone who holds a pen these days thinks he or she is a poet.

I'm really into poetry.

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes

Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

I like to write poetry.

The cliche is dead poetry.

This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

The exact day I became a poet was April 1, 1965, the day I bought my first typewriter.

For better or worse, poetry is my life.

I'm only interested in poetry.

The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that.

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.