Concern Quote by Alison Hawthorne Deming

Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.

— Valerie Worth

“Some say; “Poetry is what gets lost in translation!” In this sense, my life is a bitter poem. But that is the force of…

— Fereidoon Yazdi

It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.

— Peter Davison

Poetry must find ways of breaking distance… all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.

— Giannina Braschi

I love that people want to know about poetry. It's one of the ways of keeping alive.

— Joan Larkin

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If…

— Emily Dickinson

Part of writing is discovering the rules of the game and then deciding whether to follow the rules or to break them. The great…

— Billy Collins

Poetry is a really helpful instrument. It's so physical; the musicality becomes a sort of expression of the body. The mind is there too,…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

We're nature. Our minds are nature. Our desire to make poetry is nature.

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

Bringing science into poetry is one way of acknowledging some of the richest stuff that is in my cultural moment.

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

I think the best SF writers are very aware of what we, in the scientific community, are doing, thinking, and discovering.

— David Grinspoon

Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.

— Simon Wiesenthal

Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all…

— Eugene H. Peterson

In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded…

— Betsy Lerner