"Yet there are times when a deeper need……" — Seamus Heaney

Related Quotes

• If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect. — John Barton
• A poem is like a child; at some point we have to let it go and trust that it will… — Dorianne Laux
• It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem. — Wallace Stevens
• Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right. — Wallace Stevens
• Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world. — Robert Frost
• The world does not know it needs poems any longer, but we believe it does. — Unknown Author
• For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the… — Mary Ruefle
• Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose… — Michael Tippett
• I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world. — Mary Karr