Everyday Quote by Wallace Stevens

Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.

— Wallace Stevens

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If this world is a poem, it is not because we see the meaning of it at first but on the strength of its…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Maybe the world, without us, is the real poem.

— Mary Oliver

When you write poetry you are always addressing the world somehow.

— John Cooper Clarke

There are those fortunate hours when the world consents to be made into a poem.

— Mark Doty

Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not…

— Seamus Heaney

“I wouldn't be surprised if poetry - poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring…

— David Byrne

A poem is like a child; at some point we have to let it go and trust that it will make its own way…

— Dorianne Laux

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

— Anonymous

There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing poets seem…

— Mary Ruefle

If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

— Georges Simenon