Believe Quote by Stephen Dobyns

Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized heart there…

— C.D. Wright

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.

— Anonymous

Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

— Natasha Trethewey

Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

— Robert Frost

Everyone is their own kind of poet - you can't miss it when their words are written down.

— Sheila Heti

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

— Charles Simic

I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her; the reader…

— Lydia Davis

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

That's what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff where you're not sure what the poet's talking about. You may…

— Jay Asher

It may very well be that we have entered another time when most poets will feel compelled to use poetry to stop things from…

— Matthew Zapruder

Poetry is about slowing down. You sit and you read something, you read it again, and it reveals a little bit more, and things…

— Mark Strand

For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson