Consciousness Quote by Michele Lamy

“Meredith,' interposed Celia, 'makes one of his women, Emilia in England, say that poetry is like talking on tiptoe; like animals in cages, always…

— Anonymous

It is poetry that changes everything.

— Bell Hooks

It's not surprising to me that books ended up playing a central role in my life, but it is somewhat mysterious that poetry did.

— Campbell McGrath

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into…

— Michael Tippett

One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem.

— Jane Hirshfield

The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don't wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait. I think…

— Sonia Sanchez

“Poetry is a connection to a change within you.”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

The ethos and critique are of poetry, which becomes a rich dark with a phosphorescence of lyric as witness.

— Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on…

— Seamus Heaney

I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write. I think all poets must feel this: that there…

— Carol Ann Duffy

There is no longer beauty except in the struggle. No more masterpieces without an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault against the…

— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels…

— Thomas Carlyle