Hours Quote by Carl Sandburg

A poem is a spider web Spun with words of wonder, Woven lace held in place By whispers made of thunder.

— Charles Ghigna

Poetry is a sleep-maker for that which sits up late in us listening for the footfall of the future on to-day's doorstep.

— Laura Riding

Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight…

— Billy Collins

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

— Aberjhani

The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn,…

— Keith Miller

Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet…

— Boris Pasternak

Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite flying in…

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to…

— Carl Sandburg

A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.

— Helen Vendler

“We walked through night until there was a poem.”

— Brenda Hillman