Felt Quote by Audre Lorde

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.

— Audre Lorde

“Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears…

— Audre Lorde

“A poem that is itself a name does not yearn for the name of its creator, but shines from its name alone.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which…

— Audre Lorde

“The condition of true naming, on the poet’s part, is his resigning himself to the divine aura which breathes through forms, and accompanying that.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them.

— Andrei Voznesensky

... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we…

— Audre Lorde

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

— Evelyn Waugh

Poetry teaches us things that cannot be learned in prose, such as certain kinds of irony or the importance of the unsaid. The most…

— Sam Hamill

“A poem does not radiate from the name, but the name emanates from the poem.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry is perhaps the oldest art form. We can go back to an age-old idea of naming things, the Adamic impulse - to give…

— Nick Laird