Difficult Quote by Czeslaw Milosz

The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person...

— Czeslaw Milosz

“The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are…

— Czesław Miłosz

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry makes sense of the parts of human experience that are confusing and not decodable in any other way. It makes accessible the inaccessible.

— Tavares Strachan

Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the…

— Jane Hirshfield

“Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what was seen during a moment.”

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

— Dennis Gabor

Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of…

— Mike Young

For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are…

— Adrienne Rich

“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence. It forms the quality of light from which we predicate our…

— Audre Lorde

Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is…

— Edward Hirsch

It isn't so unusual for poems to situate themselves out of doors - though they may, at the same time, be set in an…

— Robert Bringhurst