Able Quote by Edward Hirsch

I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it,…

— Stella Benson

Poetry can startle you, awaken you, make you fall in love, take your breath away. When those words sink in, you'll never look at…

— Maria Shriver

“Poetry is a way of expressing your thoughts, feelings, and your emotions, it's how you go through life in your own special way of…

— Anonymous

You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch with to…

— Edward Hirsch

I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.

— Donald Hall

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

— Donald Hall

I wanted to write the kind of poetry that people read and remembered, that they lived by - the kinds of lines that I…

— Tracy K. Smith

My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.

— Henry David Thoreau

I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.

— Shelby Lynne

I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have.

— Alex Lemon

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in…

— Carol Ann Duffy

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.

— Edward Hirsch