Book Quote by Anna Journey

I'm always talking about how the poems I am most obsessed with are like people: complex and unknowable and with a huge capacity for…

— Ada Limon

I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book.

— Kenneth Rexroth

I keep all my poems in my journals and lock them away. They are the start of everything.

— Stevie Nicks

It makes me happy to meet other poetry fans. Especially when they recommend poets I'm not familiar with.

— Caterina Fake

It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than…

— Orson F. Whitney

I never try to force poems into a collection simply because they were written/published within a certain period of time. They will eventually find…

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

There are some books in which every poem is a facet of the same thing. So the book is like a piece of music.…

— Joan Larkin

I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of.

— Robert Frost

I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry…

— Simon Armitage

Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.

— John Updike

Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.

— Jean Cocteau

I am overwhelmed by the beautiful disorder of poetry, the eternal virginity of words.

— Theodore Roethke