Alive Quote by Stanley Kunitz

A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him.

— Stanley Kunitz

Wildlife needs wilderness-not just to survive, but also to live freely. Sadly, many species struggle to survive due to increased human activity and expansion…

— Zoe Helene

...to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self (and others)…

— Susan Sontag

Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind.

— David Wallace

I need you like the roses need the rain. Like the poet needs the pain. I just can't live without you. My body and…

— Anonymous

Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most…

— Robert Fitzgerald

The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The workplace needs the poet's gift. But the poet also needs to be educated about the workplace. You're not just coming in to do…

— David Whyte

A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army.

— Orson Welles

Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make the happiness…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

My first advice would be to read, read, read, which sounds interesting coming in a digital age, but it's so much easier to listen…

— Rita Dove

Moses spent forty years in the king's palace thinking that he was somebody; then he lived forty years in the wilderness finding out that…

— Dwight L. Moody