If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for…

It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world.

— Richard Eberhart

I don't let a poem go into the world unless I feel that I've transformed the experience in some way. Even poems I've written…

— Stephen Dunn

Be encouraged. Your heart is writing a poem on the world and it's being turned into a thousand songs.

— Donald Miller

Now no one will listen to songs. The prophesied days have begun. Latest poem of mine, the world has lost its wonder, Don't break…

— Anna Akhmatova

The world is a great poem, and the world's The words it is writ in, and we souls the thoughts.

— Philip James Bailey

Even if you're a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you're still in the world - although I guess being a poet…

— Abel Ferrara

Poetry is a river; many voices travel in it; poem after poem moves along in the exciting crests and falls of the river waves.…

— Mary Oliver

“There is always an unspeakable where, perhaps, the nucleus of the living relation between the poem and the world resides.”

— Adrienne Rich

“the poem of the world is uninterrupted, but few are the ears that hear it.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent…

— Sarah Kay

I like when a poem ends on its "receipts," meaning it gives me something tactile or tangible to dwell on as I exit the…

— Allison Joseph

“There is an Anglo-Saxon form of riddling that plays with the polarities of words like bright and dark, cold and warm, throwing them against…

— Gerald Hausman

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

— Gore Vidal

“I think he's wonderful and strange and kind of like a poem.”

— Whitley Strieber

“He looks like a poem. One of those mournfully beautiful ones with short, unfamiliar words that sound ethereal when spoken and completely nonsensical when…

— Velvetoscar