Alienation Quote by Kim Hyesoon

“To say that a poet is justified in employing a disintegrating form in order to express a feeling of disintegration, is merely a sophistical…

— Yvor Winters

My poetry definitely comes out of a female body.

— Rachel Zucker

We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet…

— Adrienne Rich

Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal -…

— May Sarton

Poetry can cause irreparable harm when misapplied

— Gail Carriger

I write poetry because I can’t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a…

— Gabriela Mistral

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

In this disintegrative, technologically-manic time, when public language is so debased, poetry continues to matter because it's the art that reintegrates words, speech, voice,…

— Adrienne Rich

I wrote poetry in a secretive way, I think, a secret from myself, I mean. I wrote it because it gave me great pleasure…

— Philip Schultz

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

— Sylvia Plath

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

— Salvatore Quasimodo

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.

— Diane Wakoski