Growing Quote by David Whyte

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

— Seamus Heaney

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.

— Natasha Trethewey

A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.

— Charles Simic

Poetry is one of the most full ways of discovering what it feels like to be a human being in this particular moment, in…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

And when you are entering into poetry, whatever stage you're at, you are participating in something with a very long and noble tradition.

— Edward Hirsch

The poems are part of my attempt to understand being in the world in an honest way.

— Dan Beachy-Quick

The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself…

— Seamus Heaney

Poetry to me is prayer.

— Anne Sexton

“Poetry excites innate emotions and perceptions that let you create a new world where you have never visited and no one else can enter.”

— Debasish Mridha

Poetry can startle you, awaken you, make you fall in love, take your breath away. When those words sink in, you'll never look at…

— Maria Shriver