In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but…

“It was interesting, not stupid or silly or sappy or overly intellectual—not any of those things that I thought poetry was. Some poems were…

— Anonymous

Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels.

— Northrop Frye

“Poetry is the language of the gods. I love poems myself. But poetry is not only in poems; it is diffused everywhere, it is…

— Ivan Turgenev

“The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are…

— Czesław Miłosz

When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge…

— Aberjhani

I hadn't published a book of poetry in over a decade because I've been very ill. As I got better and started to write,…

— Ntozake Shange

I love poetry. If my mind gets a bit tight or bound up with information or depressed with bad news, I find a good…

— Mark Rylance

My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

— Tao Lin

There is a whole book of poetry written by a woman with sucidial ideation, borderline personality disorder, major depression and who is a self…

— Sue E Cidal

“There's a book of poetry in the lines of my hands that no one wants to read”

— Holly Schindler

If i write a book it will probably be a book about how not to use the internet or a book of poetry.

— Misha Collins

“The poet can’t stand the quiet. She can’t stand the buzzing in her head. The murmur of memory. The poet picks up a book…

— Trista Mateer

I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a…

— Jewel

“Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”

— Don Marquis

I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.

— Nell Freudenberger