Anticipation Quote by A. R. Ammons

“The sonnet, a lyrical poem, the beauty and magic... convey with our hearts the truth of the universe in a single moment briefly.”

— R.M. Engelhardt

One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem.

— Jane Hirshfield

It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.

— Virginia Woolf

“When people talk about poetry as a project, they suggest that the road through a poem is a single line. When really the road…

— Dorothea Lasky

think what you hope for is that at different times of your life you're able to write the poetry that reflects the moment that…

— Edward Hirsch

“A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are,…

— Oscar Wilde

I don't work on poems and essays at once. They walk on different legs, speak with different tongues, draw from different parts of the…

— Jane Hirshfield

The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I…

— Sharon Olds

I don't know if we ever have enough distance to "see" our own trajectory. We're in the muddled middle of it. Who knows what…

— Dorianne Laux

Often you've read another poem that you think is so beautiful that you'd like to make something like that. And so you try to…

— Edward Hirsch

To write poetry is to be very alone, but you always have the company of your influences. But you also have the company of…

— Billy Collins