Air Quote by Robert Pinsky

“Poetry comes to me like breathing. I inhale and breathe in the fragrances, flavors, emotions, sentiments, and feelings of people and places and breathe…

— Avijeet Das

“Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.”

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry is composing for the breath.

— Peter Davison

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

— William Wordsworth

The medium of poetry is a human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx and the…

— Robert Pinsky

Poetry is the breath of beauty.

— Leigh Hunt

Poetry’s medium is the individual chest and throat and mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem.

— Robert Pinsky

“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, in the entire course of its development, has always been trying to capture meanings and problems which are still obscure and dormant. Poetry…

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

The medium of poetry is not words, the medium of poetry is not lines-it is the motion of air inside the human body, coming…

— Robert Pinsky

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and…

— James Gates Percival

Poetry cannot breathe in the scholar's atmosphere.

— Henry David Thoreau