Artist Quote by Jane Hirshfield

I want to just go to places where writers don't usually go, where people like me don't usually show up, and say, 'Here are…

— Tracy K. Smith

I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my passion with…

— Arthur Smith

In your beauty, how to make poems.

— Rumi

Poets have a sense of place. My place was London, and I sang about it.

— Donovan

I may as well tell you, here and now, that if you are going about the place thinking things pretty, you will never make…

— P. G. Wodehouse

I found the poems in the fields And only wrote them down

— John Clare

Poetry is the breath of beauty.

— Leigh Hunt

Place is extremely important to my work because I am always pulling landscape imagery into my poems.

— Cate Marvin

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

— Arnold Palmer

I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different place. I'm trying to take…

— Billy Collins

The first poem in The Beauty holds a woman in Portugal in a wheelchair singing, with great power, a fado. I have never seen…

— Jane Hirshfield

One of the greatest joys of being an artist is that you start to see beauty where you didn't before, and once you start…

— Anh Do