Echoes Quote by Jane Hirshfield

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being,…

— T. S. Eliot

I guess my poems feel to me a bit like they are doing something in relation to experience, i.e. time.

— Matthew Zapruder

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into…

— Michael Tippett

Poetry is a world seen through the eyes of the soul, writing in its being...

— Mariana Fulger

“Poetry is a connection to a change within you.”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

In my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.…

— Anonymous

Poetry can magnify experience.

— May Swenson

There are definitely connections between poems, but I wanted each to stand on its own. I guess it goes back to the idea of…

— Kevin Powers

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm,…

— Sven Birkerts

We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of…

— Elizabeth Drew

The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so.

— Wallace Stevens