Care Quote by Alysha Speer

“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.”

— W.H. Auden

“Do you know what people do when they read poetry?  They try to figure out what was going on in the poet’s head, and…

— Debora Geary

“It was a scary thought. A man could be surrounded by poetry reading and not know it.”

— Richard Russo

“He was in the frame of mind when a weaker man would have started writing poetry.”

— P.G. Wodehouse

“If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the…

— Plato

“He didn't much like reading novels - he preferred history or philosophy - or poetry, although he could read only a little poetry at…

— Claire Messud

“Did the poet know how lucky he was, to have such beautiful words and a place to put them and keep them?”

— Ally Condie

“Once in a while, though, he went on binges. He would sneak into bookstores or libraries, lurk around the racks where the little magazines…

— Margaret Atwood

“I hated poetry until someone showed me how to appreciate it. He told me to see poetry as a puzzle. It's up to the…

— Jay Asher

“Poetry is a painting of the imaginations of the human mind, but the reader needs to feel it and touch it.”

— Adewale Joel

“Nobody reads poetry anymore So who the hell are you I see bent over this book?”

— Aleksandar Ristovic

“They think the way to be a poet is to wear funny clothes and write sideways on the page.”

— Richard Yates