Art Quote by Hal Porter

And a lot of poetry is putting yourself back into the state of wonder that you have before things when you're a child. It's…

— Edward Hirsch

“From childhood's hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My passions from…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.

— Seamus Heaney

The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself…

— Seamus Heaney

I am overwhelmed by the beautiful disorder of poetry, the eternal virginity of words.

— Theodore Roethke

The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in…

— Florence Nightingale

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

Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?

— William Wordsworth

I had, never been, A writer. My words, My thoughts, My feelings, Had always flowed, From my lips. And yet now, They simply flow.…

— Eric Nickel

There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was…

— Robert Adamson

Poems evolve. I don't feel like I choose them; they just come to me.

— Kevin Young