Poetry Quote by Denise Levertov

When you're really caught up in writing a poem, it can be a form of prayer. I'm not very good at praying, but what…

— Denise Levertov

For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.

— Marilynne Robinson

I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.

— Derek Walcott

Poetry to me is prayer.

— Anne Sexton

I never set out to write prayers at all. But there was a span of time when I didn't find it easy to pray,…

— Gloria Gaither

I think poetry has started to take on a supplementary role of prayer for some people. The churches, I think, including my own, are…

— Kevin Hart

The Lord's Prayer is the most perfect piece of poetry. I always feel at peace and moved when I recite it.

— Mary Quant

“Prayer is that which conveys a message to God, who is either known or knowing, more or less by definition. Poetry is that which…

— G.C. Waldrep

writing is the most personal form of prayer.

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater than ourselves

— Lorna Goodison

One of the ways in which I feel close to God is writing poetry.

— Christian Wiman