Confusion Quote by Robert Frost

Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal -…

— May Sarton

Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.

— Wallace Stevens

Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not…

— Seamus Heaney

The world is a great poem, and the world's The words it is writ in, and we souls the thoughts.

— Philip James Bailey

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

A poem is like a child; at some point we have to let it go and trust that it will make its own way…

— Dorianne Laux

When you write poetry you are always addressing the world somehow.

— John Cooper Clarke

“If this world is a poem, it is not because we see the meaning of it at first but on the strength of its…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The true poem rests between the words.

— Vanna Bonta

I want to reiterate that my understanding of the poem is not the poem's core, true meaning. Once a poem goes out into the…

— James Arthur

Every word was once a poem.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In today's world it is deceptively easy to lose sight of our direction and the things that matter and give us joy. How quickly…

— Roger Housden