History Quote by Gary Snyder

As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . . the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the…

— Gary Snyder

The poems are part of my attempt to understand being in the world in an honest way.

— Dan Beachy-Quick

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

— Thomas Carlyle

I've always felt that the poems I've written which have historical context are hopefully not just simply plucking something out of history and saying…

— Rita Dove

I have to interweave my poetry with purpose. For me, that purpose is to help people, and to shed a light on issues that…

— Amanda Gorman

“The nature of poems Is a matter of words and deeds An intimate encounter of voice In the ache of the heart In the…

— Kendall Dana Lockerman

When I am asked how I began writing poems, I talk about the indifference of nature.

— Lisel Mueller

Poetry for me has been a long pilgrimage, a journey and a growing relationship with the unknown.

— David Whyte

A decade ago, my poems were precious little boxes, small and claustrophobic, completely inward gazing. I didn't possess the command to speak beyond the…

— Robin Beth Schaer

“It is, of course, we who house poems as much as their words, and we ourselves must be the locus of poetry's depth of…

— Jane Hirshfield

“i see poets riding the red winds unchecked by the borders of time, wandering with light feet over the land mines and trip wires,…

— Peter Standish Evans

Poetry is the lens we use to interrogate the history we stand on and the future we stand for.

— Amanda Gorman