Quote by John O'Donohue

“I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.”

— John O'Donohue

“Poetry is such an amazing feeling that flows like a river.”

— Euginia Herlihy

“A poem is a revelation, and it is by the brink of running water that poetry is revealed to the mind.”

— James Stephens

“The River', a poem from 'Profound Vers-A-Tales': Your perception of my exterior may not match what lies beneath the surface.”

— Kamil Ali

“The poem is furious ascension; poetry, the game of arid riverbanks. I am a man of riverbanks – excavation and inflammation – not always…

— René Char

Poetry is a river; many voices travel in it; poem after poem moves along in the exciting crests and falls of the river waves.…

— Mary Oliver

My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.

— Henry David Thoreau

There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was…

— Robert Adamson

“Leaves will fall, cold will creep in A circle of life that ends where it begins It may take a thousand years and a…

— Ryan Winfield

I wanted to write the kind of poetry that people read and remembered, that they lived by - the kinds of lines that I…

— Tracy K. Smith

I had, never been, A writer. My words, My thoughts, My feelings, Had always flowed, From my lips. And yet now, They simply flow.…

— Eric Nickel

Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.

— Alex Lemon