Alive Quote by Mary Oliver

poetry had everything to teach me about life.

— Diane Ackerman

Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of…

— Bayard Taylor

The poems are part of my attempt to understand being in the world in an honest way.

— Dan Beachy-Quick

“Poetry excites innate emotions and perceptions that let you create a new world where you have never visited and no one else can enter.”

— Debasish Mridha

I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.

— Felix Dennis

Although I was calm as a child, I had this restlessness about me–this need and hunger to create my own world. Poetry filled that…

— Masiela Lusha

Writing poetry, which for me was then saying how I felt about this and that, didn't help me to understand the world I lived…

— Grace Paley

“Very early on, near the beginning of my writing life, I came to believe that I had to seize on some object outside of…

— Zbigniew Herbert

“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

The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy…

— Milan Kundera

I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my…

— Natasha Trethewey

And a lot of poetry is putting yourself back into the state of wonder that you have before things when you're a child. It's…

— Edward Hirsch