Enchantment Quote by Marianne Moore

“He was in fact a poet without words, the more absorbed and endangered, that the springing waters were dammed back in his soul, where,…

— George MacDonald

“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

He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her; the reader…

— Lydia Davis

Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me, and my…

— Helen Keller

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

— Criss Jami

“The poet must always, in every instance, have the vibrant word... that by it's trenchancy can so wound my soul that it whimpers.... One…

— Knut Hamsun

“In this mortal frame of mine which is made of a hundred bones and nine orifices there is something, and this something is called…

— Bashō Matsuo

A poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against.

— Rod McKuen

If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... thus much curse I…

— Anonymous

A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him.

— Stanley Kunitz