Analogy Quote by Kamand Kojouri

Poems are a dance of language that comes out when my body taps into the rhythm of language. Rhythm gets us naked and exposes…

— Kim Hyesoon

“A poem needs understaning through the senses. The point of diving in a lake, is not immediately to swim to the shore, but to…

— Anonymous

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

— Herbert McCabe

“Poetry is always naked, you only dress it with words.”

— Himmilicious

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.

— Carol Ann Duffy

I know when I go to a poetry reading, I feel purged, exulted. You let the poet guide you through some kind of journey.

— Anne Waldman

Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto the page.

— Li-Young Lee

Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you…

— Abbas Kiarostami

“Do you know what people do when they read poetry?  They try to figure out what was going on in the poet’s head, and…

— Debora Geary

“When I write poetry, I’ll write it down, or a tiny bit of it, and then have to depend on the reader to bring…

— William Anderson

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

— William Hughes Mearns

Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the…

— Jane Hirshfield