Ambition Quote by Tony Hoagland

“There's a poem by Adrienne Rich I first read twenty years ago called "Splittings" that I thought of when I read your letter. The…

— Cheryl Strayed

“The nature of poems Is a matter of words and deeds An intimate encounter of voice In the ache of the heart In the…

— Kendall Dana Lockerman

Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be…

— Stephen Spender

“The words of the true poems give you more than poems, They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior,…

— Walt Whitman

“A poet is intensely in love with live and passionately wants to express his or her experience with love and beauty.”

— Debasish Mridha

“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence. It forms the quality of light from which we predicate our…

— Audre Lorde

Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.

— Alexander Pope

“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the…

— N.H. Kleinbaum

“When power narrows the areas of a man's concerns, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence”

— John F. Kennedy

“It is not enough for poems to be beautiful; they must be affecting, and must lead the heart of the hearer as they will.”

— Horace

“Traveling together into what the poet Adrienne Rich has called ‘the cratered night of female memory,’ they undertook a shared process of self-discovery, working…

— Janet Kaplan

There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

— David Whyte