Conflict Quote by Allen Tate

“Poetry can bridge that gap between what is solid and what is suggested; poetry can pull cogent meaning from the veiled truths outside of…

— Bryant McGill

Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal -…

— May Sarton

“Poetry is a will to put things right, an imaginary solution, a way of avoiding a catastrophe that already happened. Poetry is an escape,…

— Aase Berg

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

— Novalis

Poetry cannot take sides except with life.

— Stephen Spender

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

— Philip Larkin

Poetry is an act of peace.

— Pablo Neruda

What poetry can, must, and will always do for us: it complicates us, it doesn’t ‘soothe.’

— Jorie Graham

“In the land of poetry commentary, you will encounter those who take poetry too lightly, and those who take poetry too seriously. The former…

— Jasper Sole

“A poem is a heroic act of integration that binds into rough harmony the chorus of forces within and outside the soul. A poem…

— Tony Hoagland

For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes…

— Virginia Woolf