Change Quote by Dorianne Laux

It is poetry that changes everything.

— Bell Hooks

Poetry colors beings, objects, landscapes and sensations with a kind of new and particular light, which is in fact that of the poet's emotions.

— Anne Hebert

I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual…

— Eavan Boland

A certain kind of poetry looks back at experience from an older perspective.

— Edward Hirsch

I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can…

— Robert Morgan

Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.

— Stanley Kunitz

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into…

— Michael Tippett

“Poetry has acquired a fluffy image, which is totally at odds with its real nature. It's not pastel colours, but blood-red and black. If…

— Gwyneth Lewis

Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet…

— Boris Pasternak

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on…

— Seamus Heaney

In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.

— Anonymous

I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is very necessary to push poets…

— Mahmoud Darwish