Breadth Quote by Dorianne Laux

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of…

— Vernon Lee

Like all art, poems are only hints and guesses that draw our attention to something larger.

— Luci Shaw

Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized heart there…

— C.D. Wright

The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what…

— Peter Davison

A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what…

— Matthea Harvey

“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

For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are…

— Adrienne Rich

Every poet has a certain amount of "stuff." That's what you draw from for imagery. The more stuff you know well, not simply intellectually…

— Marge Piercy

I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.

— Kevin Powers

What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them.

— Octavio Paz

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

— Horace

Certain supplementary restrictions imposed on the text compel us to perceive it as poetry. As soon as one assigns a given text to the…

— Yuri Lotman