Astronomy Quote by Alexander Smith

“The sun is also a star, and it’s our most important one. That alone should be worth a poem or two.”

— Nicola Yoon

“My dear poetry, There’s a likeness between your eyes and the stars –the same charming brilliance, my eyes have ever laid upon.”

— Ymatruz

“Most poems I’ve seen are about love or sex or the stars. You poets are obsessed with stars. Falling stars. Shooting stars. Dying stars.”

— Nicola Yoon

“Poetry is the coronation of literature, and a majestic form of writing.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

A poem is the perfect place to celebrate imperfection and exult in the ways you fall short of being the person you want to…

— Taylor Mali

“I do think that poetry is important though, if you don’t strive at it, if you don’t fill it full of stars and falseness.”

— Charles Bukowski

The way a great poet takes an idea, small like the bud of a flower and makes it bloom. And makes you feel deeply..

— Melody Minagar

A poem is like a painting.

— Horace

Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry?

— Alice Munro

“The words of the true poems give you more than poems, They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior,…

— Walt Whitman

“A poem is like a penny; each word has its worth!”

— Carl McKever

Every poem, formal or free, has an ideal shape, and the job of the poet is to find it.

— Peter Meinke