Ambition Quote by Mark Doty

Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths.

— Carl Sandburg

The poets who do this are uniquely conscious of this silence, this stillness.

— Russell Simmons

Poetry is an orphan of silence.

— Charles Simic

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

— Charles Simic

I've always felt that poetry is the enemy of silence, but of course, in the right moments, silence can be useful. The trick is…

— Cornelius Eady

My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the…

— Anna Kamienska

Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.

— Carl Sandburg

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head.

— Christopher Logue

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.

— Anonymous

The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.

— James Fenton

Poetry is a sleep-maker for that which sits up late in us listening for the footfall of the future on to-day's doorstep.

— Laura Riding