Grasping Quote by Bryant McGill

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us…

— Allen Tate

“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

“Poetry is a connection to a change within you.”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Poetry can be the bridge, the crossover point in the mind between the physical and the spiritual. A place where the two can meet.

— Don Pendleton

“Poetry can be a peculiar gateway, Will. It can be a way into all kinds of things that don’t seem to have a way…

— Will Willingham

“Poetry provides a vehicle that takes me to places that logic won't go. It is a way of understanding the incomprehensible.”

— John A. Vanek

“A poem is a heroic act of integration that binds into rough harmony the chorus of forces within and outside the soul. A poem…

— Tony Hoagland

“Poetry wasn't written to be analysed: it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.”

— Nicholas Sparks

“Poetry is sometimes cryptic because we don’t always want things easily understood. Painful truth is hard enough as it is, but sometimes we want…

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence. It forms the quality of light from which we predicate our…

— Audre Lorde

Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal -…

— May Sarton

“Poetry by its very nature is subversive . . . It turns words inside out, confounds meaning, changes black and white to ambiguous shades…

— Cristina Garcia