Breathe Quote by Erica Jong

“Poetry comes to me like breathing. I inhale and breathe in the fragrances, flavors, emotions, sentiments, and feelings of people and places and breathe…

— Avijeet Das

Poetry is composing for the breath.

— Peter Davison

For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.

— Robin Morgan

Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath.

— Robert Pinsky

If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.

— John Keats

A poet writes his words into breath the oxygen moulds a relentless force stronger than death.

— Jeremy Limn

Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it....Like some animal.

— Denise Levertov

“When air becomes breath, and cells become sentient, Words become poetry, and facts become science.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

— Muriel Rukeyser

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.

— Anonymous

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.

— Khalil Gibran

It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.

— James Broughton