Ecstatic Quote by Denise Duhamel

It's not realistic to imagine that any poem will last forever. Our species won't last forever! We try to capture and preserve our impressions…

— James Arthur

“It is, of course, we who house poems as much as their words, and we ourselves must be the locus of poetry's depth of…

— Jane Hirshfield

Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death

— Ruben Dario

One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever.

— May Sarton

I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it,…

— Stella Benson

The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky…

— Janet Fitch

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

“The poet lives and writes at the frontier between deep internal experience and the revelations of the outer world. There is no going back…

— David Whyte

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

— John Fowles

Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.

— C. K. Williams

I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some set piece…

— Rita Dove

Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great…

— Madeleine L'Engle