Allen Quote by Bruce Crown

“Edgar Allan Poe’s writings showed me perfectly that there can be such fragile beauty and purity located in darkness and sorrow.”

— Nicholas Trandahl

“oh each poet’s a beautiful human girl who must die.”

— Alice Notley

“Many are poets, but without the name; For what is Poesy but to create From overfeeling Good or Ill; and aim At an external…

— George Gordon Byron

“My own luck was being born white and middle-class into a house full of books, with a father who encouraged me to read and…

— Adrienne Rich

“a poetry express dreamer man of action, his every line thinking about. thinking about a woman.”

— Tom Phillips

“Poetry can be a form of restriction. Lock away tragedy inside pretty words. Quantify pieces of infinite love.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman. ”

— Wallace Stevens

“Poetry is the guardian of love - constructed from truth it is a bridge that can be crossed from either side and it is…

— Rodney Compton

“...who shall measure the heat and violence of a poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?”

— Virginia Woolf

“Put a girl in moonlight and tell only truths and every man becomes a poet.”

— Atticus Poetry

“I’m not a poet. But my wife is. She taught me to look for the extraordinary in the simplicity. She taught me about emotion,…

— Jennifer Probst

“Poetry, is a life long war waged against ineffable beauty.”

— Atticus Poetry