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“This isn’t a poem, it’s a 3 am conversation on your basement couch and a quiet night spent on the bench next to the…

— Christopher Korenczuk

I think poems return us to that place of mud and dirt and earth, sun and rain.

— Kevin Young

“Let us remember...that in the end we go to poetry for one reason, so that we might more fully inhabit our lives and the…

— Christian Wiman

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something…

— Mary Oliver

“And so it’s hard for a certain kind of naïve mind at a restless, awakening time of year not to wonder, for example, what…

— Lisa R. Spaar

“The poet lives and writes at the frontier between deep internal experience and the revelations of the outer world. There is no going back…

— David Whyte

“Somehow something has gone wrong with poetry in our culture. We have lost touch with its purpose and value, and in doing so, we…

— Gregory Orr

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something…

— Mary Oliver

“At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real hold the objects of the…

— Wilkie Collins

“Poetry purrs like a kitten on the tip of our tongue. Each word fluidly floating from our lips, like little crystalline snowflakes, before settling…

— Jaeda DeWalt

“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

...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths...

— Anonymous