Hours Quote by Wislawa Szymborska

Poetry can keep life itself alive. You can endure almost anything as long as you can sing about it.

— James Wright

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

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

— Charles Simic

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

— Thomas Lynch

Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

— Richard Hell

Early poems are a thing it takes years to live down.

— Angela Thirkell

...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths...

— Anonymous

I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some set piece…

— Rita Dove

Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence.

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry can startle you, awaken you, make you fall in love, take your breath away. When those words sink in, you'll never look at…

— Maria Shriver

When something is too beautiful or too terrible or even too funny for words, then it is time for poetry.

— Eve Merriam

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being,…

— T. S. Eliot