Enjoy Quote by Dylan Thomas

Poetry cannot afford to lose its fundamentally self-delighting inventiveness, its joy in being a process of language as well as a representation of things…

— Seamus Heaney

Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.

— Yusef Komunyakaa

“As a poet there is something about joy I find hard to express, whereas every other emotion is rather simple. For instance, you never…

— Criss Jami

It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to…

— Honore de Balzac

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

— Khalil Gibran

There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.

— William Cowper

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

— Criss Jami

I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter,…

— Carol Ann Duffy

I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to…

— Anne Stevenson

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it…

— Mark Strand

Joy is a part of my process. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that poetry, as a practice, necessitates a sense…

— Tracy K. Smith

Poems allow us not only to bear the tally and toll of our transience, but to perceive, within their continually surprising abundance, a path…

— Jane Hirshfield