Poetry Quote by A. R. Ammons

Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use…

— Mahmoud Darwish

Poetry, which is our relation to the senses, enables us to retain a living relationship to all things. It is the quickest means of…

— Anais Nin

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being,…

— T. S. Eliot

Poetry affords us a respite in which we may gather renewed strength for the old struggle to adapt ourselves to reality.

— Robert Haven Schauffler

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once…

— Anonymous

Poetry is one of the most full ways of discovering what it feels like to be a human being in this particular moment, in…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence. It forms the quality of light from which we predicate our…

— Audre Lorde

Poetry connects us to what is deepest in ourselves. It gives us access to our own feelings, which are often shadowy, and engages us…

— Edward Hirsch

poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of…

— Annie Dillard

Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative - that we're just in the…

— Adrienne Rich

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of…

— Vernon Lee