Believe Quote by Edward Hirsch

I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me.

— Robert Bly

Poems reach up like spindrift and the edge of driftwood along the beach, wanting! They derive from a slow and powerful root that we…

— Rumi

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

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Place is extremely important to my work because I am always pulling landscape imagery into my poems.

— Cate Marvin

If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work.

— Grace Cavalieri

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the…

— Philip Levine

“We became poets before we learned to walk Our roots dug deep with the slight touch of love Our leaves sprouted after pain.”

— Avijeet Das

poems are small moments of enlightenment

— Natalie Goldberg

I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself.

— Seamus Heaney

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

“I believe that poems, sometimes, perhaps most of the time, ignite something into us. They can transform us overnight. Poems can go to our…

— Yash Thakur

Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world.

— James Dickey