Climbs Quote by Criss Jami

“Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

The more the poet grows, the deeper the level of creative intuition descends into the density of his soul. Where formerly he could be…

— Jacques Maritain

But the summits of poetry are mysteries; they are shiftingly veiled, and those who catch the glimpses see different aspects of the transcendental; but…

— Ruth Pitter

Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light.

— J. Patrick Lewis

“How do poems grow? They begin deep down in the pit of the soul as a seedling of a thought …”

— Nanette L. Avery

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of…

— Vernon Lee

The way a great poet takes an idea, small like the bud of a flower and makes it bloom. And makes you feel deeply..

— Melody Minagar

Poets often have a conscious awareness that they are struggling with the daimonic, and that the issue is their working something through from the…

— Rollo May

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

— Cristina Garcia

A lot of poems seem, in some sense, to pull the outside world into the interior. They aren't perhaps emotion recollected in tranquillity but…

— Robert Bringhurst

The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another…

— Guy Davenport

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.

— Anonymous