Inspirational Quote by William Hughes Mearns

Poetry connects you to yourself, to the self that doesn't know how to talk or negotiate.

— Rita Dove

Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.

— Sonia Sanchez

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

— C.D. Wright

Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something…

— Richard Wilbur

Poetry is a lyrical insinuation. Often, its melodic subtlety kisses the subconscious mind.

— Masiela Lusha

You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch with to…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.

— A. E. Housman

Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.

— David Biespiel

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.

— John Drinkwater

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of…

— Mike Young

Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even.

— Carolyn Forche