Black Quote by Osip Mandelstam

No time for poetry but exactly what is.

— Jack Kerouac

Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

— Anonymous

“The world deprived of clear-cut outlines, of the up and the down, of good and evil, succumbs to a peculiar nihilization, that is, it…

— Czeslaw Milosz

“May I discard the outer cover of time from the layers of poetry by immersing the poet in its entirety within me”

— Suman Pokhrel

Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.

— Louise Bogan

Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence.

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry has roots, and sometimes they are aerial. Sometimes they are buried.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Poetry is the rhythmic, inevitably narrative, movement from an overclothed blindness to a naked vision that depends in its intensity on the strength of…

— Dylan Thomas

I think poems return us to that place of mud and dirt and earth, sun and rain.

— Kevin Young

Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient…

— Robert Morgan

Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps.

— Carl Sandburg