Doorstep Quote by Laura Riding

The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn,…

— Keith Miller

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

— Anonymous

True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.

— Gaston Bachelard

“Loving my Poet as I do, though, I try hard to understand what a poet is. The first clue lies in the fact that…

— Naeem Murr

Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of…

— Mike Young

What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.

— Caryl Churchill

Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music.

— H. L. Mencken

Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

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

— Andrei Tarkovsky

For every poet it is always morning in the world; history a forgotten, insomniac night. The fate of poetry is to fall in love…

— Derek Walcott

Poetry is about slowing down. You sit and you read something, you read it again, and it reveals a little bit more, and things…

— Mark Strand