Community Quote by Richard Blanco

“Poetry excites innate emotions and perceptions that let you create a new world where you have never visited and no one else can enter.”

— Debasish Mridha

Entering into writing a poem is an emotional endeavor for me as well as a spiritual and creative one. Having to write those poems…

— Richard Blanco

“I do think that all of us think in poems. I think of a poem as being deeper than headline news. You know how…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

I was deeply moved by Richard Blanco's reading of his inaugural poem-a timely and elegant tribute to the great diversity of American experience. And…

— Natasha Trethewey

A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, the history of people in…

— Natasha Trethewey

“I know that western sky. Sometimes when I'm alone painting, a blind lifts and I let my mind drift back. I remember walking out…

— Dawn Tripp

At the very beginning when I begin writing a poem I try not to think of the audience or anyone at all except for…

— Rita Dove

“Did you notice the light that lit up the entire world? Did you feel its fascination pressing against your heart? While the tingling, vibrant…

— Calvin W. Allison

“Poetry is the essence of life in which twinkling lights tickle the minds of readers and take them to a world where no one…

— Debasish Mridha

“You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“We've all led raucous lives, some of them inside, some of them out. But only the poem you leave behind is what's important. Everyone…

— Charles Wright

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