Advantage Quote by Raymond Aubrac

Get rid of words, and get rid of meaning, and still there is poetry.

— Yang Wanli

Get rid of words and meaning, and there is still poetry.

— Yang Wanli

Listen to presences inside poems, Let them take you where they will. Follow those private hints, and never leave the premises.

— Rumi

My advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world -…

— e. e. cummings

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in…

— Carol Ann Duffy

Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's…

— Philip Levine

My advice to aspiring poets is to find a community of other poets who are willing to read one another's work. And to read…

— Lucia Perillo

You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what…

— Adrienne Rich

Poetry is the key to the mind.

— Gaetane Gayot

What I try to do is to keep emotion on a tight leash; otherwise, it can never be transubstantiated into poetry.

— Kiki Dimoula

My first advice would be to read, read, read, which sounds interesting coming in a digital age, but it's so much easier to listen…

— Rita Dove

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping…

— A. R. Ammons