Art Quote by Jane Hirshfield

“Shift #5 for Seamus Heaney a box of coconut water two cans of coconut milk so many looking for help some people care when…

— Ali Liebegott

“Poems arrive ready to begin. Poets are only the transportation.”

— Mary Oliver

“Poets don’t run out of material the way novelists do because they don’t depend on material in the same way.”

— Julian Barnes

“Poems is what could keep us happy, different words, different poets, different paths.”

— Deyth Banger

The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it.

— Jason Silva

“Poetry rescues things by reconciling matter and spirit in the metaphor.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

When I started writing poetry, it was always in very hip-hop influenced spaces: Someone would teach a Nas song side-by-side with a Gwendolyn Brooks…

— Jamila Woods

“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

We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Poetry is what you find in the dirt in the corner, overhear on the bus, God in the details, the only way to get…

— Elizabeth Alexander

A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.

— Helen Vendler

One does not read a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks with hopes that it will grant him a career in engineering; he does so because…

— Clint Smith