Blithe Quote by Michel de Montaigne

I am not interested in poetry for poetry's sake.

— Ernesto Cardenal

Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal -…

— May Sarton

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

— C.D. Wright

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

— Charles Simic

I'm not literary, and I'm not academic, and I don't think like a poet, so my stuff will never be like that.

— Tanya Saracho

Poetry is a process of getting back to the unconscious. Hence, I am always writing-even when I'm not facing the white space. I feel…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is…

— Edward Hirsch

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

— Edmund Wilson

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver

Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun.

— Gwen Harwood

I myself always want to talk about "poetry," not "the poem."

— Paul Fry

I have been writing poetry ever since I was in high school. My poetry mainly concerned the theme of love. And that, of course,…

— Robert Indiana