Agony Quote by Archibald MacLeish

A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to…

— Kenneth Clark

Above all, we ask the poet to teach us a way of seeing.

— Diane Ackerman

For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are…

— Adrienne Rich

Poetry is not a way of saying things; it's a way of seeing things.

— Karl Shapiro

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

— Octavio Paz

For me, the poetry in a work is that which makes visible the invisible.

— Nathalie Sarraute

It seems an odd idea to my students that poetry, like all art, leads us away from itself, back to the world in which…

— Helen Bevington

Poetry is a world seen through the eyes of the soul, writing in its being...

— Mariana Fulger

Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.

— Kenneth Koch

Not to make too much of a claim for poetry, but this is a question that goes to the moral heart of the business…

— Robert Hass

Poetry, which is our relation to the senses, enables us to retain a living relationship to all things. It is the quickest means of…

— Anais Nin

I know that in some ways I operate from a kind of antiquated interest in imagery, while many contemporary poets are not so interested…

— Martha Ronk