Delusion Quote by Hart Crane

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

“The poem no longer transcended reality.”

— Jean Améry

And what I've found over time is that for me to write a poem that I think is worthy that I can live with,…

— Edward Hirsch

“We live entirely in the past, nourished by dead thoughts, dead creeds, dead sciences. And it is the past which is engulfing us, not…

— Henry Miller

Poetry and fiction have grieved for a century now over the loss of some vitality which they think they see in a past from…

— Guy Davenport

The poetic image […] is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant past resounds…

— Gaston Bachelard

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

“Poetry...is full of visions pulled more from our hearts than from our minds. Our greatest poems are written in the dust of our deepest…

— John H Ritter

The reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again.

— Mark Strand

“The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual…

— Anonymous

“The stream of Time, irresistible, ever moving, carries off and bears away all things that come to birth and plunges them into utter darkness,…

— Anna Comnena

“How, in the contemporary period, can we evoke the imagery that communicates the most profound and most richly developed sense of experiencing life? These…

— Joseph Campbell