Fall Quote by Derek Walcott

The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world.

— Derek Walcott

Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Poetry is a sleep-maker for that which sits up late in us listening for the footfall of the future on to-day's doorstep.

— Laura Riding

...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths...

— Anonymous

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Ars Poetica To gaze at the river made of time and water And recall that time itself is another river, To know we cease…

— Jorge Luis Borges

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

— Wallace Stevens

History after all is the true poetry.

— Thomas Carlyle

The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn,…

— Keith Miller

“The serious poet should seek to explore the 'sources' of these global nightmares-and to explore them not just in poetry, but in person. Poetry…

— John Berryman

Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.

— Wallace Stevens

When you write poetry you are always addressing the world somehow.

— John Cooper Clarke