Quotes on Poetry

People who are knowledgeable about poetry sometimes discuss it in that knowing, rather hateful way in which oenophiles talk about wine: robust, delicate, muscular. This has nothing to do with how most of us experience it, the heart coming around the corner and unexpectedly running into the mind. - Anna Quindlen

Most entertainment dulls our senses. Poetry sharpens them. - Joseph Pearce

Do you have a favorite poet? I like the metaphysical poems of John Donne and Richard Crashaw, but admit that it takes effort to understand them. For sheer joy of serendipitous language, I love Emily Dickinson. And Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verse never ceases to bring a smile to my heart.

Blessings,