Legs Quote by Virginia Woolf

Poetry, which is our relation to the senses, enables us to retain a living relationship to all things. It is the quickest means of…

— Anais Nin

Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind.

— Camille Paglia

Poems offer us counter-knowledges. They let us see what is invisible to ordinary looking, and to find in overlooked corners the opulence of our…

— Jane Hirshfield

Prose is walking; poetry is flying

— Galway Kinnell

Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time.

— Diane Glancy

If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride.

— Paul Muldoon

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

— Horace

but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry.

— Charles Bukowski

“Poetry is a painting of the imaginations of the human mind, but the reader needs to feel it and touch it.”

— Adewale Joel

Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight…

— Billy Collins

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

— Philip Larkin

The only people who have trouble with poetry are the people who link it with literature. It's much more akin to mountain-walking, and dancing…

— Theo Dorgan