Concerned Quote by Archibald MacLeish

The aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, as water. We feel poetry as we…

— Jorge Luis Borges

The aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, of water. We feel poetry as we…

— Jorge Luis Borges

When I read Spencer Madsen’s poetry, I not only feel awe because he’s so good, one of the best, but I also think about…

— Dennis Cooper

“A poem was a box for your soul. That was the point. It was the place where you could save bits of yourself, and…

— Andrea Ashworth

“A poem was a box for your soul. That was the point. It was the place where you could save bits of yourself, and…

— Andrea Ashworth

“Poetry is not about how we feel, of course. It’s about how we feel about how we feel. Knowing how we feel about how…

— Adrian Blevins

Songs like 'Everything To Help You Sleep' or 'Claws in Your Back' took a little bit more grappling with the actual poetry for me…

— Julien Baker

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow…

— Mark Strand

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If…

— Emily Dickinson

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

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn…

— Sylvia Plath

“I find everything poetic, and it’s in the corners of my heart which are sometimes mysterious that I catch a glimpse of poetry… I…

— Paul Gauguin

And a lot of times in slam poetry I feel like people are so worried about the performance that the words might not be…

— Amber Tamblyn

Spanish and English have such different music, and in my own poetry I feel much less drawn to fluid sounds than I do toward…

— Joan Larkin

The Lord's Prayer is the most perfect piece of poetry. I always feel at peace and moved when I recite it.

— Mary Quant