Darkness Quote by Anne Waldman

the poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be...

— Bruce Springsteen

Poets often have a conscious awareness that they are struggling with the daimonic, and that the issue is their working something through from the…

— Rollo May

You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world.

— Jackie Kennedy

I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it.

— Mary Oliver

Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

— Jim Jarmusch

I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational path through…

— Billy Collins

Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized heart there…

— C.D. Wright

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

— Clive James

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline, you've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space that you've just got…

— Sylvia Plath

I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better…

— Mark Twain

“The poet lives and writes at the frontier between deep internal experience and the revelations of the outer world. There is no going back…

— David Whyte

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche