Poetry Quote by T.S. Eliot

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“The poet lives and writes at the frontier between deep internal experience and the revelations of the outer world. There is no going back…

— David Whyte

“To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to the growth and maturity of the human spirit.…

— Steven Callahan

“[Poetry] strips the veil of familiarity from the world, and lays bear the naked and sleeping beauty which is the spirit of its forms.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . . the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the…

— Gary Snyder

“Poetry has a mysterious way of illustrating the landscapes of life. One can't help but love its audacity to record the journey.”

— L.v. Jones

A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him.

— Stanley Kunitz

“From this arid sphere every discourse and every poem sets forth; and every journey through forests, battles, treasures, banquets, bedchambers, brings us back here,…

— Italo Calvino

“Let us not subside into a single mandatory way of thinking or feeling, immersed by a spirit of self-gratification. But let’s dig into the…

— Erik Pevernagie

I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance…

— Gary Snyder

“How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness, no sense…

— George Eliot

“These days many poets live in cities, or at least in suburbs, and the natural world grows ever more distant from our everyday lives.…

— Mary Oliver