Poetry Quote by Mindy McGinnis

“Poetry speaks slowly. My mother told me that. We are usually too much in a hurry.”

— Susan Meissner

“My mother is a poem I'll never be able to write, though everything I write is a poem to my mother.”

— Sharon Doubiago

“Poetry is thoughts that breath and words that burn.”

— Thomas Grey

“I believe that poems, sometimes, perhaps most of the time, ignite something into us. They can transform us overnight. Poems can go to our…

— Yash Thakur

“Poetry magically excites an unknown mysterious emotion.”

— Debasish Mridha

“Poetry, in its own way, is a carrier of the sparks, because it too comes out of silence, seeking connection with unseen others.”

— Adrienne Rich

“I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry now that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying…

— Anonymous

“To My Mother You too, my mother, read my rhymes For love of unforgotten times, And you may chance to hear once more The…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something…

— Mary Oliver

“There are many things you can lie your way through; poetry is not one of them.”

— Nicole Lyons

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something…

— Mary Oliver