Bears Quote by Billy Collins

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being,…

— T. S. Eliot

“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 always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

— Seamus Heaney

I don't let a poem go into the world unless I feel that I've transformed the experience in some way. Even poems I've written…

— Stephen Dunn

I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my…

— Natasha Trethewey

In my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.…

— Anonymous

You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch with to…

— Edward Hirsch

I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say…

— James Laughlin

Poetry connects you to yourself, to the self that doesn't know how to talk or negotiate.

— Rita Dove

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

— Charles Simic

Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is…

— Edward Hirsch