Deep gratitude Quote by Dorianne Laux

I regard a love for poetry as one of the most needful and helpful elements in the life-outfit of a human being. It was…

— Lucy Larcom

I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.

— Felix Dennis

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

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 can keep life itself alive. You can endure almost anything as long as you can sing about it.

— James Wright

Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all…

— Claire Tomalin

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

— Donald Hall

I think what life experience has brought to my poems is compassion. When you work hard to make a living, raise a child up…

— Dorianne Laux

“Poetry is a way of expressing your thoughts, feelings, and your emotions, it's how you go through life in your own special way of…

— Anonymous

Poetry at least in my own life, is really about your own mortality. Everything in poetry makes me think of my mortality. It is…

— Keith Carter

The spiritual desire for poetry can be overwhelming, so much do I need it to experience and name my own perilous depths and vast…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who…

— Andrew Motion