Approach Quote by Stanley Kunitz

There is something about writing poetry that brings a man close to the cliff's edge.

— Charles Bukowski

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of…

— Vernon Lee

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something…

— Mary Oliver

“The nature of poems Is a matter of words and deeds An intimate encounter of voice In the ache of the heart In the…

— Kendall Dana Lockerman

Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?

— George Crabbe

For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in…

— Mary Oliver

The best public poems aren't necessarily those that go at the subject like a bull at a gate.

— Andrew Motion

Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies…

— Mahmoud Darwish

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something…

— Mary Oliver

“Sometimes I say to a poem, "I don't have the strength To wring out another drop Of the sun." And the poem will often…

— شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Khwāja Šams ud-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Šīrāzī

I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a poem that…

— Seamus Heaney

“A poet in his senses knocks vainly at the gates of poetry.”

— Ben Johnson