Eye Quote by Marianne Moore

Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.

— Adrian Mitchell

Gently touching with the charm of poetry.

— Lucretius

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

— Herbert McCabe

Poetry is a world seen through the eyes of the soul, writing in its being...

— Mariana Fulger

Poetry is the skin that I have between my body and the world's body.

— Lucie Brock-Broido

Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry can magnify experience.

— May Swenson

Poetry can be the bridge, the crossover point in the mind between the physical and the spiritual. A place where the two can meet.

— Don Pendleton

“You must find... someone mild and beautiful to be your lover. Someone who will tremble for your touch, offer you a marguerite by its…

— Janet Fitch

To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or…

— Galway Kinnell

Sometimes poetry--words--give us a small, lovely look at ourselves. And sometimes that is enough.

— Patricia MacLachlan

The poetry is the Earth, charming; The river, flowing from lofty mountains; Nature, a young woman and a heavenly plant with blossoming flowers, slinking…

— Manmohan Acharya