Good times Quote by Anne Waldman

The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will…

— Matthew Arnold

It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us.

— Robert Hass

Your poems will happen when no one is there.

— May Sarton

“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence. It forms the quality of light from which we predicate our…

— Audre Lorde

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it.…

— Boris Pasternak

I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it,…

— Stella Benson

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being,…

— T. S. Eliot

“The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are…

— Czesław Miłosz

Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.

— Alex Lemon

Any time is the time to make a poem.

— Gertrude Stein

When something is too beautiful or too terrible or even too funny for words, then it is time for poetry.

— Eve Merriam

The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are…

— Czeslaw Milosz