Another day Quote by Glen Hansard

I think that poetry is important when you are shipwrecked, when the ordinary structures that hold you up are gone.

— Robert Bly

Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy.

— William Carlos Williams

Your poems will happen when no one is there.

— May Sarton

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

The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.

— Philip Levine

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

think what you hope for is that at different times of your life you're able to write the poetry that reflects the moment that…

— Edward Hirsch

My work should be seen as poetry.

— Robert Wilson

Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem.

— Tracy K. Smith

I never deny poems when they come; whatever I am doing, whatever I am writing, I lay it aside and attend to the arriving…

— Amy Lowell

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly…

— Vita Sackville-West

“Every day is a poetry day.”

— Naomi Shihab Nye