Abundance Quote by Naomi Shihab Nye

By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet and what…

— Rita Dove

We tend to be so bombarded with information, and we move so quickly, that there's a tendency to treat everything on the surface level…

— Rita Dove

It may very well be that we have entered another time when most poets will feel compelled to use poetry to stop things from…

— Matthew Zapruder

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

— Horace

For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are…

— Adrienne Rich

But to do its noticing and judging, poetry balances itself on the pinprick of the moment. Slowing down, stopping yourself completely, to read and…

— Ian Mcewan

Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is…

— Adrienne Rich

Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.

— Kenneth Koch

Poetry is about slowing down. You sit and you read something, you read it again, and it reveals a little bit more, and things…

— Mark Strand

...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths...

— Anonymous

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

— A. R. Ammons

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.

— Anonymous