Poetry Quote by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

— Wallace Stevens

“I wouldn't be surprised if poetry - poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring…

— David Byrne

“In this world we come across poetic imagination and not Truth.”

— Mohan Gaitonde

Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not…

— Seamus Heaney

“There is always an unspeakable where, perhaps, the nucleus of the living relation between the poem and the world resides.”

— Adrienne Rich

“the poem of the world is uninterrupted, but few are the ears that hear it.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Maybe the world, without us, is the real poem.

— Mary Oliver

“Prose Poems from my book SPAN OBSERVATION So, we may not be able to explain the world. Not exactly. But we can accept it,…

— Jay Woodman

“Poetry unlocks that unseen world and that unheard language to the real world.”

— Euginia Herlihy

Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.

— Robert Frost

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

— Niki Herd

“As for the world, all reality has no other excuse for existence except to offer the poet the chance to play a sublime match…

— Paul Valéry