Dream Quote by Alice Walker

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

— Seamus Heaney

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

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express.

— Erica Jong

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

— Andrew Motion

Poetry for me has been a long pilgrimage, a journey and a growing relationship with the unknown.

— David Whyte

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

— Donald Hall

“Good poetry makes the universe reveal a secret.”

— Hafiz

The poems are part of my attempt to understand being in the world in an honest way.

— Dan Beachy-Quick

And what I've found over time is that for me to write a poem that I think is worthy that I can live with,…

— Edward Hirsch

“Poetry magically excites an unknown mysterious emotion.”

— Debasish Mridha

I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.

— Felix Dennis