Dimensions Quote by Oskar Kokoschka

The poem is always the last resort. In it the poet makes a world in little, and finds peace, even though, under complete focused…

— Louise Bogan

In today's world it is deceptively easy to lose sight of our direction and the things that matter and give us joy. How quickly…

— Roger Housden

“We lose, again and again, the present moment — which is not a poetic concept but the literal location of everything that has ever…

— Ayisha Bhatti

Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?

— William Wordsworth

“Give contemporary POET more SPACE & a long-last MAGIC will surround you all again.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

The poems ... are moments when I had the intensity to see, and the energy to build, some careful analog that completed the seeing.…

— Samuel R. Delany

It's absolutely crucial to maintain my life as a poet.

— Edward Hirsch

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to…

— Anatole France

That's what interests me in poetry. That withholding, that white space, the pressure, and my long-term faith in violent concision, is still with me.

— Lucie Brock-Broido

Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not…

— Seamus Heaney

The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy…

— Milan Kundera

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the…

— Philip Levine