Hope Quote by Natasha Trethewey

Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in…

— Diane Ackerman

It's in the act of making things that we figure out who we are.

— Austin Kleon

I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it,…

— Stella Benson

“Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread.”

— Pablo Neruda

Poetry is an act of peace.

— Pablo Neruda

Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.]

— Juvenal

“Making it in poetry The young teller at the credit union asked why so many small checks from universities? Because I write poems I…

— Bob Hicok

Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.

— A. A. Milne

Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose for art…

— Mark McMorris

If you were making poetry out of convictions - trying to convince other people - you were in the territory of rhetoric, and that…

— Robert Hass

So it can be for us as we allow the stirrings of hope to motivate us to action; and then as we act so…

— David S. Baxter

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

— Anne Stevenson