Anything and everything Quote by Kathleen Raine

At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable, something that…

— Joseph Brodsky

“Poetry wasn't written to be analysed: it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.”

— Nicholas Sparks

“These days many poets live in cities, or at least in suburbs, and the natural world grows ever more distant from our everyday lives.…

— Mary Oliver

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

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

For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.

— Robin Morgan

Poetry is a world seen through the eyes of the soul, writing in its being...

— Mariana Fulger

“The poet lives and writes at the frontier between deep internal experience and the revelations of the outer world. There is no going back…

— David Whyte

Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in…

— Sarah Kay

He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We all write…

— John Fowles