Air Quote by Patti Smith

So the physicality of that and the just the sheer lack of urban noise and machinery - just the wind, the water and your…

— DJ Spooky

“I was almost seventeen when the spell of my childhood was broken. There was no sudden jolt, no immediate awakening and no alteration, as…

— Judith Kinghorn

“At first I couldn't see anything. I fumbled along the cobblestone street. I lit a cigarette. Suddenly the moon appeared from behind a black…

— Octavio Paz

“We found, before the hands of the dial had taught us the lapse of a week, that this would be something not to be…

— Harriet Prescott Spofford

The trees called to me, urging me to abandon what I knew and vanish into the oncoming night. It was a desire that had…

— Maggie Stiefvater

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something

— Rita Dove

“The more I took note of how my body and brain clicked along through the day, the more I realized that I spent a…

— Dee Williams

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

— E. M. Forster

Who gave you the ability to contemplate the beauty of the skies, the course of the sun, the round moon, the millions of stars,…

— Gregory of Nazianzus

I was writing poems as I was walking. I was able to take that restlessness, that nomadic distraction, and use that distraction in the…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“Perhaps there are events and things that work as a doorway into a mythical world, the world of first people, all the way back…

— Linda Hogan

“How thin the air felt at the forest's edge, how ghostly the trees that guarded their realm… The whole world seemed as delicate as…

— Martine Leavitt