Business Quote by Keith Miller

Poetry is a sleep-maker for that which sits up late in us listening for the footfall of the future on to-day's doorstep.

— Laura Riding

“Many of the poets writing today are hung up on language and symbolism. If the poem does not have depth of meaning or fit…

— Harley King

There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see.

— Paul Muldoon

Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy.

— William Carlos Williams

Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.

— Mary Oliver

...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths...

— Anonymous

“Poetry is the lighthouse of life Guiding the lost from a stormy sea. Without it's presence darkness prevails Keeping us from all we can…

— Tom Zart

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

Poetry is priceless… a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.

— Marie Ponsot

Poetry is the rhythmic, inevitably narrative, movement from an overclothed blindness to a naked vision that depends in its intensity on the strength of…

— Dylan Thomas

People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.

— Mary Oliver

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

— Horace