Answers Quote by Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.

— Carl Sandburg

“Poet Wrestling with Words Some are clouds, mist, vapor Some are diaries written with tears Some appear like dew--a Friend in Time of need--some…

— Theresa Rough PhD

The dust comes secretly day after day, Lies on my ledge and dulls my shining things. But O this dust I shall drive away…

— Viola Meynell

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

— Kevin Young

Poetry is the breath of beauty.

— Leigh Hunt

Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath.

— Robert Pinsky

“Poetry comes to me like breathing. I inhale and breathe in the fragrances, flavors, emotions, sentiments, and feelings of people and places and breathe…

— Avijeet Das

“True poetry is the fragrance of the heart in the house of peace.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“Clouds and buttercups exist in poetry, but they are there only because storms and flowers populate the world too.”

— Daniel Tammet

“There's something to walking with autumnal thoughts through the evening fog. One likes to compose poems at a time like that.”

— Hermann Hesse

Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.

— Allen Ginsberg

You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world.

— Jackie Kennedy