Accepting Quote by Aberjhani

The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself…

— Seamus Heaney

“At one time I was weary of verse writing, and wanted to give it up. At another time I was determined to be a…

— Matsuo Bashō

The poetry when I was a kid felt like something that I could control, and whether it failed or not, whether it was good…

— Amber Tamblyn

Once I was lost in a forest. I was so afraid. My blood pounded in my chest and I knew my heart's strength would…

— Anne Michaels

The word compositon moved me spiritually and I made it my aim in life to paint a composition. It affected me like a prayer…

— Wassily Kandinsky

I did a weird thing when I was about 24. For four years I had written quite a lot of poetry, and I started…

— Cliff Curtis

One time on a dive, I wound up drifting up in darkness surrounded by billions of photoluminescent creatures. It was a religious experience, one…

— Graham Hawkes

Once, I was a poet, and, like all poets, I spent too long in the Kingdom of Dreams.

— Neil Gaiman

Im sure it was the precociousness and an idealistic zest for life's experiences hiding behind a transparent mask of innocence that captured me!

— Carl Stoynoff

My family didn't go to church. Once when I slept over at the house of a friend, her parents brought me to Sunday school…

— Cheryl Strayed

I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I wanted to be a poem.

— Jaime Gil de Biedma

“It was the baptism of myself, the renewal of me and by me. The water felt, finally, like it could wash away the dust…

— Emery Lord