Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often…

Baseball is an everyday sport if you want to stay sharp.

— Mark Schlereth

It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.

— Anonymous

“It was a mere matter of seeing common things together and exchanging common speech concerning them, but each was so strongly conscious of the…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

The music that of common speech but slanted so that each detail sounds unexpected as a sharp inserted in a simple scale.

— Dana Gioia

A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.

— Henry David Thoreau

There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem which the mass of men hear and read. What…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Only in Russia poetry is respected – it gets people killed. Is there anywhere else where poetry is so common a motive for murder?”

— Osip Mandelstam

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

— Robert Frost

When you find it you become the secret addressee of a literary text and I felt that their reader had been left out of…

— Edward Hirsch

I believed even then that if I could transform my experience into poetry I would give it the value and dignity it did not…

— Philip Levine

I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you…

— Anonymous

To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life…

— Ai Weiwei

Poetic experience is distinct in nature from mystical experience. Because poetry emanates from the free creativity of the spirit,it is from the very start…

— Jacques Maritain

In my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.…

— Anonymous

The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of…

— Edward Hirsch