Awaken Quote by Maria Shriver

“Poetry is a way of expressing your thoughts, feelings, and your emotions, it's how you go through life in your own special way of…

— Anonymous

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being,…

— T. S. Eliot

“Poetry may appear to be just words, but it is an extension of our lives. It is the music of life and for us…

— Abdul Milazi

“Some poems take us places where no words reach, no thought, they take you up to the core itself, life stops for one moment…

— Jón Kalman Stefánsson

In my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.…

— Anonymous

“To me at least, poetry like love- implies a magical approach to life, quite different from the presently accepted rational way of looking at…

— Jane Roberts

To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.

— Gregory Orr

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

— Charles Simic

“Poetry is simple when you write what you see and feel, searching for the words only makes it difficult”

— Rayvon L. Browne

Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is…

— Erica Jong

“If you’re going to love a poet you should know this. Our words are our truths. Our blood hums with verse. We break easily.…

— Jeanette LeBlanc

You have no idea how poet you are until you meet love.

— Anonymous