Bushmen Quote by Bruce Chatwin

I don't know if we ever have enough distance to "see" our own trajectory. We're in the muddled middle of it. Who knows what…

— Dorianne Laux

Only poetry can measure the distance between ourselves and the Other.

— Charles Simic

The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask…

— Christopher Morley

A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him. To remain a poet after forty requires an awareness of your darkest Africa, that…

— Stanley Kunitz

“Of course we had hoped that he would take up his sword as part of the President's war on poetry. The time is ripe…

— Donald Barthelme

“he was walking poetry, a walking poem”

— Bemy Wells

Poetry is more a threshold than a path.

— Seamus Heaney

The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can't touch - like England 's grass network of lanes 100 years ago,…

— E. M. Forster

How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before biographers.

— Virginia Woolf

“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.”

— W.H. Auden

If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride.

— Paul Muldoon

No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which he can…

— Peter Ackroyd