Discipline Quote by Cioran

“But my research had taught me that the tissue of contradictions that was my personality was itself, at best, a poem, where “poem” is…

— Ben Lerner

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

— Nicholas Sparks

“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

It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do,…

— Ellen Glasgow

“The nice thing about poetry is that you’re always stretching the definitions of words. Lawyers and scientists and scholars of one sort or another…

— Pete Seeger

“My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of existence.”

— Michelle Geaney

Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the…

— Germaine Greer

[My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality . . . a way of discovery and definition. It is a way…

— Robert Hayden

“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

“...when a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also are inimical to poetry, he has no…

— Orhan Pamuk

I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation

— C.D. Wright

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

— Edmund Burke