Country Quote by Richard Eberhart

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.

— Richard Eberhart

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the…

— Paul Engle

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

— Adrienne Rich

Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence. It forms the quality of light from which we predicate our…

— Audre Lorde

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

The fact that poetry is not of the slightest economic or political importance, that is has no attachment to any of the powers that…

— Graham Hough

Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

— Dennis Gabor

Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of…

— Mike Young

Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe.

— Camille Paglia

Poetry is the language of a state of crisis.

— Anonymous

Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in…

— Diane Ackerman