"A poem is not necessarily meant to be experienced as a straightforward story. It's more like a complex soup: each flavor, each spice, each ingredient achieving a different thing." Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley in How Poetry Can Change Your Heart.
"But a person whose heart has been changed by poetry will tell you poetry is the key that unlocks a door you never knew was shut." Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley in How Poetry Can Change Your Heart.
"In the end, the poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see - and what we see is life."Robert Penn Warren - (1905–89), US poet, novelist, and critic. The first person to win Pulitzer Prizes in both fiction and poetry categories, he was made the US’s first poet laureate in 1986.
"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749–1832), German poet, playwright, novelist, philosopher, and scientist.
Poetry is "Word music" as defined by Linda Tedesco in Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley's book How Poetry Can Change Your Heart.
Poetry lovers never have to do a myriad of things alone; go to the park, wait at the doctor's office, ride on airplane. Right there in your pocket: a friend. " as defined by Hillary Browne in Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley's book How Poetry Can Change Your Heart.
"Poetry makes the universe reachable by telling a story. We can travel continents in a single stanza. Feel lifetimes in a lone page." Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley in How Poetry Can Change Your Heart.
"Poetry permeates the walls we put up. Poetry startles us awake and into our own aliveness. Poetry rustles the hairs on the backs of our necks and chases us into more compassionate rooms. Those it is difficult to change a stubborn mind, poetry can change our hearts in an instant." Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley in How Poetry Can Change Your Heart.
"The likelihood that someone out there is writing the poems that you need to hear increases by the day. Poetry is alive and running through the streets, calling your name. Whoever you are. No matter what they told you. Despite anything that has ever suggested otherwse. Poetry is for you." Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley in How Poetry Can Change Your Heart.
"You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket. You will never have an idle hour." John Adams, (1735–1826), 2nd president of the US 1797–1801
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