Act Quote by A. E. Housman

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays…

— A. E. Housman

There have been times when only a hair's-breadth has intervened betwixt myself and the seething devil-ridden world of madness; for the hideous knowledge, the…

— Clark Ashton Smith

“For you i have saved poems under my skin.”

— Sanober Khan

my poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn't yet fallen off completely.

— Tove Ditlevsen

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh…

— Walt Whitman

Poetry is the skin that I have between my body and the world's body.

— Lucie Brock-Broido

Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.

— Rumi

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

— Emily Dickinson

“In the night I brush my teeth with a razor”

— Kevin Young

As a poet I would say everything should be able to come into a poem but I can't put toothbrushes in a poem. I…

— Sylvia Plath

A spirit glided past my face; the hair of my flesh bristled.

— Anonymous

“May the ink of your thoughts never dry.”

— Joanie Schirm