Bigs Quote by Robert Bringhurst

Poems are other people's snapshots in which we see our own lives.

— Charles Simic

Poetry is the essence of everything, and it’s through deep contact with reality and living fully that you reach poetry. Very often I see…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Some of my pictures are poem-like in the sense that they are very condensed, haiku-lik. There are others that, if they were poetry, would…

— Sally Mann

Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

— Horace

I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.

— Shelby Lynne

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

"Poetry" refers to the quite challenging and quite resistant sets of words put together to be admired and interpreted by people who are already…

— Stephen Burt

Poetry is not an end in itself but in the service of life; of what use are poems, or any other works of art,…

— Kathleen Raine

I like poems that are complex.

— Peter Davison

I think poetry bridges text and image. Poetry is visual in its imagery - but it requires close attention to words themselves. Words become…

— Allegra Goodman

Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.

— George Santayana