Feelings Quote by Valerie Worth

Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.

— Valerie Worth

Poetry can startle you, awaken you, make you fall in love, take your breath away. When those words sink in, you'll never look at…

— Maria Shriver

I think that poetry is important when you are shipwrecked, when the ordinary structures that hold you up are gone.

— Robert Bly

Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its…

— Babette Deutsch

It may be that poetry makes life's nebulous events tangible to me and restores their detail; or conversely, that poetry brings forth the intangible…

— Frank O'Hara

“Writing poetry is about learning to pare down the poem to the most essential words. Every word used has to be crucial to the…

— Harley King

“A poem needs understaning through the senses. The point of diving in a lake, is not immediately to swim to the shore, but to…

— Anonymous

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

— Donald Hall

“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

Maybe poetry's not so important, but ... it makes life worth living.

— Arda Collins

I think poems return us to that place of mud and dirt and earth, sun and rain.

— Kevin Young

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being,…

— T. S. Eliot