Lessons Quote by Walter Bargen

“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

“This observation, understanding, and appreciation, when combined with the excellence of poetic expression, produce the best poetry, steeped in poetic truth and served with…

— Alok Mishra

“Poem Words from the heart Breaking, teaching, healing The deepest, purest form of art Feeling”

— Esther Spurrill Jones

“Poet, teach us to love our dying.”

— Robert Kroestch

“For if my poems have always been about survival--and I believe they have been--then survival too keeps revealing itself as an art of the…

— Jane Cooper

“To the poet, Every act is poetry; From cutting the grass, To cleaning a headstone. From walking, To breathing. Every act is something worth…

— Eric Overby

The essence of poetry is will and passion.

— William Hazlitt

Poetry is a life-cherishing force.

— Mary Oliver

“Poetry is man’s best means of perceiving most profoundly the action and the consequence of his own emotions.”

— John Ciardi

“This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace,…

— Octavio Paz

The pleasure we feel, reading a poem, is our assurance of its integrity.

— Donald Hall

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

— Archibald MacLeish