Attention Quote by Robert Frost

In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice.

— Li-Young Lee

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. By poetry I…

— Allen Ginsberg

When poetry separates from song, then the words have to carry all the rhythm themselves; they have to do all the work. They can't…

— Edward Hirsch

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.

— Allen Ginsberg

Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and partly because…

— Herbert Spencer

I just think that limits the kinds of experiences that people can have with poetry. But, poetry will survive; I don't worry about that.…

— Edward Hirsch

Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it.

— William Beckett

Poetry saves what is human in this world going gaudy & insane. In exploring small truths, something larger might turn up, adding dimension, insight,…

— Diane Glancy

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

— James Schuyler

Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm,…

— Sven Birkerts

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values

— A. R. Ammons

Each speech having its own character, the poetry it engenders will be peculiar to that speech also in its own intrinsic form. The effect…

— William Carlos Williams