Beer Quote by Jenny Johnson

A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is…

— Mark Strand

Poetry fills clubs, halls and venues. Poets and poems can talk to the deepest feelings and to the silliest. It can be like stand-up…

— Michael Rosen

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

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the…

— John Drinkwater

A poem can use anything to talk about anything.

— Jane Hirshfield

I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.

— Natasha Trethewey

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

— Salvatore Quasimodo

A poem is what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text and experiences as relevant to the text.

— Louise Rosenblatt

Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to…

— Mattie Stepanek

A poem is the perfect place to celebrate imperfection and exult in the ways you fall short of being the person you want to…

— Taylor Mali

Poetry is something that disturbs the mainstream with minor things and it is something that breaks down active discrimination with passive things, and it…

— Kim Hyesoon

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

— Caroline Kennedy