Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
Laura Riding
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a... →
To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no... →
Rainer Maria Rilke
The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
Frederick William Robertson
One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among certain populations.
Marilynne Robinson
The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of... →
My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness.
George W. Romney
I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it... →
Isaac Rosenberg
Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.