Becoming Quote by Edward Hirsch

Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.

— Lou Andreas-Salomé

“The first fact of the world is that it repeats itself. I had been taught to believe that the freshness of children lay in…

— Robert Hass

I've long believed that anybody who is in the act of remembering childhood is a poet, because you're thinking back on times when you…

— Guy Maddin

Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use…

— Mahmoud Darwish

When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge…

— Aberjhani

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being,…

— T. S. Eliot

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

— C.D. Wright

Poetry connects us to what is deepest in ourselves. It gives us access to our own feelings, which are often shadowy, and engages us…

— Edward Hirsch

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

— Jack Prelutsky

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change,…

— Audre Lorde

Poetry comes to me out of thin air or out of my unconscious mind. It's sort of the way dreams come to us and…

— John Ashbery

Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express.

— Erica Jong