Books Quote by Deborah Landau

“The language of poetry is a language of deep intimacy that is meant to touch the human spirit and awaken it to the mystery…

— Ron Starbuck

Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

— Jim Harrison

Poetry is not an end in itself but in the service of life; of what use are poems, or any other works of art,…

— Kathleen Raine

Poems' deep work is a matter of language, but also a matter of life. One part of that work is to draw into our…

— Jane Hirshfield

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

— Archibald MacLeish

Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't yet in…

— Diane Ackerman

“That’s the beauty of poetry,” I said. “That language is inadequate to describe life. So poetry just tries to bring up emotions. Just read…

— Victor Methos

I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions, and traumatic events that come with being alive.

— Gregory Orr

“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 needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.

— Alex Lemon

I think poetry can be a kind of secular way in which people can be led to approach the difficult parts of their life,…

— Kevin Hart

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come…

— Antonin Artaud