Art Quote by Stanley Kunitz

Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express.

— Erica Jong

I like poems that inspire, that make us think and reflect. It's like putting love into the world for whoever picks it up.

— Peleg Top

Sometimes I feel too transparent in my poetry, but that's what I think the beauty of poetry is, because as transparent as the author…

— Masiela Lusha

If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

— Georges Simenon

“Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death. The gift of art is a superior gift that allows…

— Ruben

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.

— Anonymous

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but…

— John Keats

I would like to try to write poetry that would do everything I wanted poems to do, but also be readable by any person.…

— Matthew Zapruder

Poems' deep work is a matter of language, but also a matter of life. One part of that work is to draw into our…

— Jane Hirshfield

Poetry is not an end in itself but in the service of life; of what use are poems, or any other works of art,…

— Kathleen Raine

I've reached a point in life where it would be easy to let down my guard and write simple imagistic poems. But I don't…

— Maxine Kumin

For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.

— Robin Morgan