Natural world Quote by Mary Oliver

“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

Poetry is fact given over to imagery.

— Rod McKuen

Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go; for the mountains are fountains –…

— John Muir

“Poetry is the image of man and nature”

— Wordsworth William

All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

— Honore de Balzac

... the natural world is the old river that runs through everything, and I think poets will forever fish along its shores.

— Mary Oliver

“I still don't know much about art, but I do know that there are places inside of us―palaces of glorious light and caverns of…

— Neal Shusterman

The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.

— Muriel Rukeyser

“Real poetry is art at its purest sense. It is never a commodity, but a breath of eternity.”

— Subhan Zein

“At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real hold the objects of the…

— Wilkie Collins

“Poetry: a weapon to articulate the world the way I see it.~”

— Niki Herd

“How, in the contemporary period, can we evoke the imagery that communicates the most profound and most richly developed sense of experiencing life? These…

— Joseph Campbell