Becomes Quote by Edward Hirsch

My focus is on the reader and that the poet's job is not to inspire himself or herself. The poet's job is to inspire…

— Edward Hirsch

a poem is like a wine glass in which you can hold up a little bit of reality and taste it.

— Gwen Harwood

Wine is poetry in a bottle.

— Clifton Fadiman

The great post-Holocaust poet, Paul Celan, said that a poem is a message in a bottle sent out in the not always greatly hopeful…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the…

— Jane Hirshfield

A poem, as a manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the –not always…

— Paul Celan

A poem is what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text and experiences as relevant to the text.

— Louise Rosenblatt

A poem, being an instance of language, hence essentially dialogue, may be a letter in a bottle thrown out to the sea with the-surely…

— Paul Celan

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of messages.”

— Vanessa M. Chattman

A poem is a box, a thing, to put other things in. For safe keeping.

— Marianne Boruch

Wine is bottled poetry.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“To write or read a poem is . . . to enter into a different kind of thought world from our normal patterns. A…

— N.T. Wright