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It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us.

— Robert Hass

It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is…

— Mark Strand

Given a blank we can’t help trying to fill it in along lines of customary seeing or saying. But the best poetic lines undermine…

— Heather McHugh

Maybe that is the power of poetry. It somehow transcends news cycles, and becomes a part of our collective imagination. That is the beauty…

— Kwame Dawes

You may repeat the most marvelous poems. And that is not worth a cent if you don't live it.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

— Robert Fitzgerald

“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

“When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme, In praise of ladies…

— William Shakespeare

My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness or absurdity.

— Hayden Carruth

“In Poems of Love and Light: The Light of The Sun…Our Breath as One, the tenor seems to have changed slightly, as the progression…

— Frank L. DeSilva

Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.

— Ovid

Poetry is a perfectly reasonable means of overcoming chaos.

— I. A. Richards