Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Poetry teaches us how to live in a world in which none of us belongs. — Dennis Nurkse Copy Share Image
Poetry teaches us things that cannot be learned in prose, such as certain kinds of irony or the importance of the unsaid.… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again,… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“A person can only be born in one place.However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image