Different Quote by Jane Hirshfield

Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of…

— Tomas Transtromer

I want to reiterate that my understanding of the poem is not the poem's core, true meaning. Once a poem goes out into the…

— James Arthur

Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.

— Lou Andreas-Salomé

“Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what was seen during a moment.”

— Carl Sandburg

The true poem rests between the words.

— Vanna Bonta

I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a…

— James Dickey

The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower

— Michael Longley

Poetry can be the bridge, the crossover point in the mind between the physical and the spiritual. A place where the two can meet.

— Don Pendleton

Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not…

— Seamus Heaney

There's a fine line between writing the poem and the poem writing itself. You have to be there and not be there, too.

— David Meltzer

The poem is always the last resort. In it the poet makes a world in little, and finds peace, even though, under complete focused…

— Louise Bogan

“There is a difference between a poem and a writing incrusted with a feel of Poetry to fall within range”

— Mpho Leteng