Borders Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country…

— May Sarton

Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.

— James Dickey

Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of…

— Mike Young

Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is…

— Adrienne Rich

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 is the skin that I have between my body and the world's body.

— Lucie Brock-Broido

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

“Poetry excites innate emotions and perceptions that let you create a new world where you have never visited and no one else can enter.”

— Debasish Mridha

“Government property. Trespassers will be prosecuted." The sweetest poetry is written on the signs you walk up to from the back, and the best…

— Vironika Tugaleva

Poetry is something that disturbs the mainstream with minor things and it is something that breaks down active discrimination with passive things, and it…

— Kim Hyesoon

Poetry is priceless… a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.

— Marie Ponsot

American poetry is this country's greatest patrimony. It takes a stranger to see some things clearly. This is one of them, and I am…

— Joseph Brodsky