Crops Quote by Paul Muldoon

The way a great poet takes an idea, small like the bud of a flower and makes it bloom. And makes you feel deeply..

— Melody Minagar

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

— Horace

The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person...

— Czeslaw Milosz

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values

— A. R. Ammons

Sometimes poetry--words--give us a small, lovely look at ourselves. And sometimes that is enough.

— Patricia MacLachlan

Poetry relishes ripe fruit - but ripe is one thing and overripe quite another. That's something poetry doesn't like, so it couldn't care less…

— Kiki Dimoula

A good poem is an amazing thing: a perfectly distilled, articulate moment. It opens you up - sometimes slowly, like the blooming of a…

— Celeste Ng

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of…

— Vernon Lee

The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.

— Paul Muldoon

“Poetry was a discipline grounded in experience that drew its life and worth from a source much greater than oneself, and as it realized…

— Kathleen Norris

Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between…

— Harry Mathews