Anything can happen Quote by Jane Hirshfield

Poetry is composing for the breath.

— Peter Davison

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

— Mark Strand

A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end.

— Robert Graves

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

— Muriel Rukeyser

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

— Charles Bukowski

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

— Laura Riding

“and the word lost for a single breath, as I lie against you; I promise everything that ever was will grow alive again: the…

— John Glenday

One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.

— Stephen Dobyns

Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity.

— Peter J. Daniels

When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

— T. S. Eliot

Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath.

— Robert Pinsky