Inspirational Quote by Jane Hirshfield

Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions…

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry uses language to create a music borne inside human experiences and emotions.

— Pattiann Rogers

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.

— John Drinkwater

Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact … the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.

— William Carlos Williams

Poetry is music written for the human voice.

— Maya Angelou

“Poetry has an immediate effect on the mind. The simple act of reading poetry alters thought patterns and the shuttle of the breath. Poetry…

— Ivan M. Granger

Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.

— F. R. Leavis

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

— Lascelles Abercrombie

Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice.

— Li-Young Lee

I wanted to become a writer and felt that poetry was perfected language, so having it in my subconscious mind would make the music…

— Caterina Fake

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

— W. H. Auden