Back together Quote by Laura Nyro

“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

A poem is like a child; at some point we have to let it go and trust that it will make its own way…

— Dorianne Laux

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

Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart...

— John Berger

I want to reiterate that my understanding of the poem is not the poem's core, true meaning. Once a poem goes out into the…

— James Arthur

Poetry has its own laws speaking for the life of the planet. It is a language that wants to bring back together what the…

— Linda Hogan

“Somehow something has gone wrong with poetry in our culture. We have lost touch with its purpose and value, and in doing so, we…

— Gregory Orr

“Poetry has isolated me from the world more than it has connected me to it.”

— Peter Davis

Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart... Poetry can repair…

— John Berger

over and over again I am struck by the wordiness of modern poetry, as if language had replaced experience and must be more and…

— May Sarton

What poetry is asking us to accept can be difficult. Our proximity to our mortality, the fragility of our existence, how close we live…

— Matthew Zapruder

Poetry is that which is lost in translation.

— Laurence J. Peter