Everyday Quote by Marion Milner

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“These days many poets live in cities, or at least in suburbs, and the natural world grows ever more distant from our everyday lives.…

— Mary Oliver

I feel like it's important every once in a while to estrange ourselves from the familiar to remind ourselves of the potentialities of people,…

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of…

— Gaston Bachelard

Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't yet in…

— Diane Ackerman

Somewhere inside we do know everything about ourselves. There is no real forgetting. Perhaps we know somewhere, too, about all there is to come.

— Jane Gardam

“Once I leave — once I start the car or catch the bus to the airport, by which the voyage is initiated — my…

— Evan Rail

It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think…

— James Schuyler

Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions,…

— Samuel Johnson

“How we perceive the world and how we act in it are products of how and what we remember...No lasting joke, invention, insight, or…

— Joshua Foer

Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new

— Rory Sutherland

And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light,…

— Peter Matthiessen