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“Poems are rough notations for the music we are.” ― Rumi
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Poetry is the natural prayer of the human soul. – Rilke
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“Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry.” – Robert Bly
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“It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power.” ― Raymond Carver
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When you say life is marvelous, you are saying a banality. But to make life a marvel, that is the role of poetry. -- Octavoi Paz

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“A poet is someone who can pour light into a cup, then raise it to nourish your beautiful parched, holy heart.” -- Hafiz

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Poetry began when somebody walked out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder and said, ‘ah-h-h!’ that was the first poem. – Lucille Clifton

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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at . . . -- Diane Ackerman

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And verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture. -- Pablo Neruda

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“Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.” -- T.S. Eliot

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. . . it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are—until the poem—nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt. --Audre Lorde