Happens Quote by T. S. Eliot

I would say there are different kinds of poems. There are things that poets in the history of poetry hit upon when they're very…

— Edward Hirsch

I think there are different kinds of poetry for different stages of life and there's the wild, exuberance of youth, there's the painful agony…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

— C.D. Wright

There is some reason to believe that when a man does not write his poetry it escapes by other vents through him, instead of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death

— Ruben Dario

No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer…

— Ezra Pound

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

— Thomas Lynch

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

— Mark Strand

One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame of mind:…

— James Agee

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

— Charles Bukowski

Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.

— Georges Braque

I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger…

— C. K. Williams