The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
I write about whatever turns up. Every single day, I'm sitting down for three to five hours in the evenings wrestling away and producing far too much verse. - Felix Dennis
I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure. - Felix Dennis
Poetry forces a writer to condense and crystallise his thoughts and often represents a short cut to truths unsuspected by the author himself. - Felix Dennis
Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic. - Felix Dennis
The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it. - Felix Dennis
With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store? - Felix Dennis
Poetry is not made to be sucked up like a child's milkshake, it is much better sipped like a precious malt whisky.
But it isn't easy,' said Pooh. 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.
...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? - Vincent van Gogh
Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose. - J.K. Rowling
