Asks Quote by Adrienne Rich

Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.

— Adrienne Rich

“A poetic form is essentially a codified pattern of silence. We have a little silence at the end of a line, a bigger one…

— Don Paterson

“Poetry, in its own way, is a carrier of the sparks, because it too comes out of silence, seeking connection with unseen others.”

— Adrienne Rich

“Not every silence breaks beautifully, like a delicate melody. There are those silences shattering into countless pieces, each shard a fragment of unspoken words,…

— Shahid Hussain Raja

Poetry is an orphan of silence.

— Charles Simic

The poets who do this are uniquely conscious of this silence, this stillness.

— Russell Simmons

“A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness,…

— Robert Frost

“Poetry is the yearning of the soul to break free!”

— Avijeet Das

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

— Charles Simic

One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.

— Stephen Dobyns

Poems are difficult to silence.

— Stephen Greenblatt

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

— James Broughton