Clouds Quote by Tom Stoppard

The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Clouds and buttercups exist in poetry, but they are there only because storms and flowers populate the world too.”

— Daniel Tammet

How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.

— John Lennon

The secret of poetry is never explained,— is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry connects us to what is deepest in ourselves. It gives us access to our own feelings, which are often shadowy, and engages us…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry, in the entire course of its development, has always been trying to capture meanings and problems which are still obscure and dormant. Poetry…

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

A poem makes clear without making simple. Poetry's language carries what lives outside language. It's as if you were given a 5-gallon bucket with…

— Jane Hirshfield

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

— Seamus Heaney

Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.

— Carl Sandburg

There is a kind of poetry in simple fact.

— Edward Abbey

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

— A. R. Ammons