A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him.

A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him. To remain a poet after forty requires an awareness of your darkest Africa, that…

— Stanley Kunitz

Wildlife needs wilderness-not just to survive, but also to live freely. Sadly, many species struggle to survive due to increased human activity and expansion…

— Zoe Helene

Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind.

— David Wallace

A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army.

— Orson Welles

I need you like the roses need the rain. Like the poet needs the pain. I just can't live without you. My body and…

— Anonymous

My first advice would be to read, read, read, which sounds interesting coming in a digital age, but it's so much easier to listen…

— Rita Dove

Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most…

— Robert Fitzgerald

The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make the happiness…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The workplace needs the poet's gift. But the poet also needs to be educated about the workplace. You're not just coming in to do…

— David Whyte

All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our human life. Whoever pictures…

— Haniel Long

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.

— Howard Nemerov

“In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their gardens -- a ruin,…

— Michael Pollan

A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled…

— Edward Abbey

“In the United States law, federally designated wilderness is famously defined as 'an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled…

— Emma Marris