Books Quote by Seamus Heaney

I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative.

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

Poets often are dealing with history and are thinking about the way history moves across us, and we move in it.

— Kevin Young

And when you are entering into poetry, whatever stage you're at, you are participating in something with a very long and noble tradition.

— Edward Hirsch

If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.

— Seamus Heaney

Poetry is a reaching out forward expression, an effort to find fulfillment

— Robert Frost

Poetry can be the bridge, the crossover point in the mind between the physical and the spiritual. A place where the two can meet.

— Don Pendleton

What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go…

— Paul Muldoon

I know when I go to a poetry reading, I feel purged, exulted. You let the poet guide you through some kind of journey.

— Anne Waldman

Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you.

— Ellen Bass

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

— William Hughes Mearns

I really came to literature through poetry.

— Cheryl Strayed

If you want to understand poetry, You have to go to its origin, If you want to understand the poet, You have to go…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe