Poetry Quote by Charles Wright

We've all led raucous lives, some of them inside, some of them out. But only the poem you leave behind is what's important. Everyone…

— Charles Wright

“Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.”

— Anonymous

“But many people just love to be in the midst of that poetry, to keep experiencing what’s perplexing, what’s beautiful, what’s true.”

— John Timpane

“There is always an unspeakable where, perhaps, the nucleus of the living relation between the poem and the world resides.”

— Adrienne Rich

“Let us remember...that in the end we go to poetry for one reason, so that we might more fully inhabit our lives and the…

— Christian Wiman

“You leave behind your fine poems. You leave behind your beautiful flowers. And the earth that was only leant to you. You ascend into…

— Aliette de Bodard

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato

“Poetry...is full of visions pulled more from our hearts than from our minds. Our greatest poems are written in the dust of our deepest…

— John H Ritter

“There’s only the writing, which I admit to knowing very little about. But then it’s probably best not to know. It allows one to…

— Russell Edson

“This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace,…

— Octavio Paz

“I believe that poems, sometimes, perhaps most of the time, ignite something into us. They can transform us overnight. Poems can go to our…

— Yash Thakur

“What though the radiance that was once so bright, be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of…

— William Wordsworth