Causes Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper? ?To be? is to…

— Nhat Hanh

Poetry is a world seen through the eyes of the soul, writing in its being...

— Mariana Fulger

Poetry's work is the clarification and magnification of being.

— Jane Hirshfield

Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I write because to write a new sentence, let alone a new poem, is to cross the threshold into both a larger existence and…

— Jane Hirshfield

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

— William Hughes Mearns

Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something…

— Richard Wilbur

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

— Patricia MacLachlan

The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see.

— Robert Penn Warren

A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.

— Robert Frost

“A poet not only has to observe but also absorb all the emotions objectively in order to express them in verse. Only a calm…

— Alok Mishra

For me, the poetry in a work is that which makes visible the invisible.

— Nathalie Sarraute