All kinds Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

That’s all you really hope for from a book – that it’s going to resonate with young people and empower them in some way.…

— Kwame Alexander

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they…

— Rita Dove

“The way contemporary literature is emerging, soon we can expect "Item poetry" in novels.”

— Himmilicious

“Why should it be any surprise that people find solace in the most intimate literary genre? Poetry slows us down, cherishes small details. A…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.

— Mary Oliver

Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for having expected…

— Tracy K. Smith

Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip…

— Terry Eagleton

There's the brilliant audacity of youth that poets strike upon in their earliest work sometimes that they never can hit upon again.

— Edward Hirsch

The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don't wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait. I think…

— Sonia Sanchez

There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.

— Raymond Carver

Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music.

— H. L. Mencken

Short stories and some short novels are close to poetry--with the fewest words they capture the essence of a situation, of a human being.…

— Gina Berriault