Different Quote by Wislawa Szymborska

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of…

— Vernon Lee

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Sometimes poetry--words--give us a small, lovely look at ourselves. And sometimes that is enough.

— Patricia MacLachlan

I do like Canadian poetry. Christian Bök, Anne Carson, Carmine Starnino, and Don McKay are a few of the Canadian poets whose work has…

— James Arthur

We tend to be so bombarded with information, and we move so quickly, that there's a tendency to treat everything on the surface level…

— Rita Dove

I cant look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.

— Isaac Rosenberg

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

— Georges Simenon

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

Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

— Jim Jarmusch

Poems are other people's snapshots in which we see our own lives.

— Charles Simic

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

— Anonymous

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

— Wallace Stevens