Poetry Quote by Jane Hirshfield

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

— Edmund Burke

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

— Carl Sandburg

“Poetry is a sound, asking the shadow to dance”

— Jana Ghossein

A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Shadow work then becomes the act of diving into the depths of who you are to discover which messages have been begging for your…

— Dusah Wiseman

Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.

— Anonymous

You're shadowed by your own dream, especially as you get older, of trying to create something that will last in poetry. And so, you're…

— Edward Hirsch

There is a kind of poetry in simple fact.

— Edward Abbey

Poetry and painting continue to be companions: they cast their shadow and light, their silences and tones, at the edges of each other.

— Pierre Coupey

There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A number of poems don't work alone. They need to fit together to work.

— Martha Ronk