Bravery Quote by Jorie Graham

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

— Wallace Stevens

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I regard a love for poetry as one of the most needful and helpful elements in the life-outfit of a human being. It was…

— Lucy Larcom

I like poems that inspire, that make us think and reflect. It's like putting love into the world for whoever picks it up.

— Peleg Top

So much of what I love about poetry lies in the vast possibilities of voice, the spectacular range of idiosyncratic flavors that can be…

— Tony Hoagland

So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people…

— Ellen Bass

For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic.

— James Broughton

“Every poet will forever try to write the greatest poem ever written, I have found that this kind of poem can be written with…

— Michael Jones

Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!

— Phyllis Bottome

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

— Alex Lemon

I like the machinery of poems, especially when they have human warmth.

— Edward Hirsch

I think most good poetry is about suffering; I think that's what underlies the love in these landays pieces - suffering and longing.

— Eliza Griswold