Poet Quote by Edith Hamilton

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

— F. L. Lucas

Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins.

— Edward Hirsch

When it comes to sermon writing, generally there are two problems. Some preachers love the research stage but hate the writing, and they start…

— John Ortberg

“Isn't it odd that pastors, who are responsible for interpreting the Scriptures, so much of which come in the form of poetry have so…

— Eugene H. Peterson

Poetry has roots, but they are sometimes cut off and still poetry is written.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it.

— William Beckett

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

— Charles Simic

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

— W. S. Merwin

Many wise and true sermons are preached us everyday by unconscious ministers in street, school, office, or home; even a fair table may become…

— Louisa May Alcott

Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.

— Anonymous

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

When people decide to talk publicly about poetry as an art form and how it's received, they often get very abject about it: "Nobody…

— Eileen Myles