Arithmetic Quote by Carl Sandburg

“When people talk about poetry as a project, they suggest that the road through a poem is a single line. When really the road…

— Dorothea Lasky

Poetry is more a threshold than a path.

— Seamus Heaney

There is a kind of poetry in simple fact.

— Edward Abbey

Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time.

— Diane Glancy

“Poetry is the coronation of literature, and a majestic form of writing.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.

— Helen Dunmore

poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing.

— May Sarton

Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now.

— Richard Eberhart

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

— Anonymous

Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

— Anonymous

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

— Ishmael Reed