Clouds Quote by Nhat Hanh

If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there…

— Nhat Hanh

A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A poem should not mean but be.

— Archibald MacLeish

Poetry is a world seen through the eyes of the soul, writing in its being...

— Mariana Fulger

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

— David Carradine

Poetry's work is the clarification and magnification of being.

— Jane Hirshfield

A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.

— Robert Frost

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

— William Hughes Mearns

“If you can not be a poet, be the poem.”

— David Carradine

We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

— Jack Prelutsky

Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something…

— Richard Wilbur