Beautiful Quote by Langston Hughes

Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.

— Seamus Heaney

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.

— Jean Genet

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

— Thomas Lynch

Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now.

— Richard Eberhart

Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.

— Carl Sandburg

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

— Horace

Poetry can startle you, awaken you, make you fall in love, take your breath away. When those words sink in, you'll never look at…

— Maria Shriver

A poem can use anything to talk about anything.

— Jane Hirshfield

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.

— Adrienne Rich

Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light.

— J. Patrick Lewis

Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express.

— Erica Jong