“Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.”– Karl Shapiro Related Quotes “Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking – it’s just that I’m one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well.”– Andrew Motion “If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?”– Joyce Carol Oates “I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I’m always painting and drawing as well, and it’s an ongoing creative assignment.”– P. J. Harvey