Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. — Seamus Heaney
The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly. — Frederick William Robertson
American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one’s right to — Diane Wakoski
The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe