Bargaining Quote by Annette Curtis Klause

She has something to say about what life is like-which is all we ask of poetry.

— Louis Untermeyer

She has something to say about what life is-which is all we ask of poetry.

— Anonymous

“Your poetry is mysterious. Do you intend me to comprehend you, or are you hoping that I mistake my own dullness for your wisdom?”

— Anne Fortier

“My mom has poetry in her, something I never would have guessed. It must be where my words come from, flowing through me with…

— Mindy McGinnis

Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless…

— Pietro Aretino

“Writing poetry is supernatural. Or, it should be.”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

“She lives in the poetry she cannot write.”

— Oscar Wilde

How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.

— John Lennon

The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.

— Natasha Trethewey

“I don't want to wrong anybody, so I won't go so far as to say that she actually wrote poetry, but her conversation, to…

— PG Wodehouse

Poetry doesn't necessarily need to be some erudite thing. Your mom telling you a story is just as much poetry as some old 17th…

— Arlo Parks

I am a reflection of my mother’s secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers

— Audre Lorde