Life Quote by David N. Elkins

“In poetry a certain faith in the impossible,…as in religion a like faith in the inscrutable, must have a place[;]”

— Robert Von Hallberg

“It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious... Poetry is a religion without hope.”

— Jean Cocteau

“With poetry, rules are meant to be broken. And that's the beauty of poetry; it's rebellious, like me.”

— Melody Lee

“I believe the poem is a sacramental act, pure devotion to whatever may be revealed only through the music of intuition. The dance of…

— Sam Hamill

“At one time I was weary of verse writing, and wanted to give it up. At another time I was determined to be a…

— Matsuo Bashō

“Poetry, to me, is a type of shamanistic chant capable of chasing away the darkness within us.”

— Leila Samarrai

“Poetry resists academic pretension, just as the mystery of religious faith evaporates on contact with dogma.”

— Patrick White

“or that writing a poem you can read to no one is like dancing in the dark.”

— Ovid

“But my life, oh, my life, had been a constant search for an enormous dream in which my fellow creatures and animals, plants, chimeras,…

— Aleksander Wat

“The words of the true poems give you more than poems, They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior,…

— Walt Whitman

“Since the age of fifteen poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or performed any relationship that…

— Robert Graves

“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