Being successful Quote by Toi Derricotte

People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.

— Mary Oliver

As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

— Dennis Gabor

Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling.

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of…

— Mary Oliver

Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full…

— Aileen Fisher

Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.

— Wallace Stevens

Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.

— Kathleen Raine

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all…

— James Russell Lowell

The commitment to working at poetry is important because a poet is a maker, and a poem is a made thing. We have to…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to…

— Mattie Stepanek

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what…

— Allen Ginsberg