Beast Quote by Pablo Neruda

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

— E. M. Forster

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something…

— Mary Oliver

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something…

— Mary Oliver

“Prose Poems from my book SPAN OBSERVATION So, we may not be able to explain the world. Not exactly. But we can accept it,…

— Jay Woodman

“I can't write poetry like you, but I can talk with nature... And when I come back... we put our beds side by side…

— Bettina Brentano

“I write poems to save myself, to preserve in ink memories of me long after my soul has dissolved and my bones melted, joined…

— Ayokunle Falomo

Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart...

— John Berger

“Life is equal parts strange and beautiful and horrible, and we’re tossed into it without a map or an instruction guide. Poems and stories…

— Chuck Wendig

“Oh, God, You have given me a vacant soul, an untaught conscience, a life of clay. Put Your big hands around mine and guide…

— Gloria Gaither

“We don't read and write poetry because it is cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And…

— Tom Schulman

“[comrades] are ashes, entrails, dung, stove smoke, clay, and they’ll all return to clay. They’re full of dirt, candle oil, droppings, dust. You, O…

— Tatyana Tolstaya

“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the…

— N.H. Kleinbaum