Poetry(71)

"Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away."
Carl Sandburg

"Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes."
Carl Sandburg

"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."
Carl Sandburg

"I've written some poetry I don't understand myself."
Carl Sandburg

"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment."
Carl Sandburg

"Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted."
Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

"Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket."
Charles Simic

"A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman."
Wallace Stevens