Funny Quote by Rumi

Listen to presences inside poems, Let them take you where they will. Follow those private hints, and never leave the premises.

— Rumi

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through any one that suits you.

— Jim Morrison

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.

— Jim Morrison

Poetry can magnify experience.

— May Swenson

Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in an otherwise…

— Edward Hirsch

Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction.

— Steven Heighton

I'm really into poetry.

— Grace Potter

I need more and more silence, it feels. Poems don't leap into my mind when I'm distracted, turned outward, with other people, listening to…

— Jane Hirshfield

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

— Joseph Joubert

Poetry increases the feeling for reality.

— Wallace Stevens

“We have many shelves of poetry at home, but still, it takes an effort to step out of the daily narrative of existence, draw…

— Ian McEwan

My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.

— Jean Cocteau