Concrete Quote by Frank O'Hara

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

As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

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

— Donald Hall

I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of…

— Mike Young

Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full…

— Aileen Fisher

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

I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions, and traumatic events that come with being alive.

— Gregory Orr

Poetry is the essence of everything, and it’s through deep contact with reality and living fully that you reach poetry. Very often I see…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

“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

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun