All things Quote by Anais Nin

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Poetry increases the feeling for reality.

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

— A. R. Ammons

Poetry connects us to what is deepest in ourselves. It gives us access to our own feelings, which are often shadowy, and engages us…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use…

— Mahmoud Darwish

Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your…

— Ray Bradbury

To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life…

— Ai Weiwei

Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe.

— Camille Paglia

Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of…

— Mike Young

Poetry is one of the most full ways of discovering what it feels like to be a human being in this particular moment, in…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming