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“Poetry emerges from the depths of struggle. It comes up fighting, demanding to be heard.”

— Aisha Mirza

To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood we will fail, and if…

— Donald Hall

The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition.

— Marvin Bell

“The words of the true poems give you more than poems, They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior,…

— Walt Whitman

“T]here arises an insight, which the poet must learn through other people. There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal:…

— Pablo Neruda

“The poet's nature is all searching, creator and nourisher of desire; the poet is like the heart in a people's breast, a people without…

— Sir Muhammad Iqbal Allama Iqbal

What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you.

— Antonio Machado

“Poetry is the perpetual endeavor to express the spirit of the thing, to pass the brute body and search the life and reason which…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into…

— Thomas Carlyle

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something…

— Mary Oliver

“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

“I am poetry, surrounding the dreamer, Ever present, I capture the spirit, enslave the reluctant pen, and become the breath on the writer's only…

— Pam Muñoz Ryan