Awareness Quote by Anne Sexton

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.

— Edward Hirsch

Prose is walking; poetry is flying

— Galway Kinnell

“Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Poetry has been to me something more than amusement, it has been a cheering companion when I had no other to fly to, a…

— Henry Kirke White

The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to…

— Seamus Heaney

I was writing poems as I was walking. I was able to take that restlessness, that nomadic distraction, and use that distraction in the…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“Remember, a stranger once told you that the breeze here is something worth writing poems about.”

— Shinji Moon

Poetry must speak of others, in order to speak for the poet's imagination, in order to speak of itself; it is slowed down by…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

— Horace

That's what I want, that kind of recklessness where the poem is even ahead of you. It's like riding a horse that's a little…

— Li-Young Lee

There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.

— Dana Goodyear

“Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.”

— Wallace Stevens