Jem carstairs Quote by Cassandra Clare

“Stop. Watch. Listen. There’s poetry all over. And the thing about poetry? It don’t write itself.”

— Bethany House Publishers

“I do not write poetry; I take words and dip them in feelings.”

— Arti Honrao

“Everything I write is for her; none of it is ever good enough.”

— Kristopher Jansma

“Then there are the other days, when nothing is enough. The poem grins. It grins because it knows it is a terrible poem. It…

— Lynn Coady

“Poetry is a story that is so good, It doesn't need complete sentences.”

— John Smyth

“Of all Tessa’s qualities, that was maybe the one I admired the most: she knew how to sit inside my sadness with me. I…

— Emery Lord

“ You see it, don't you, James? Without Tessa there is nothing for me--no joy, no light, no life. If you loved me, you…

— Cassandra Clare

“I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry as I need it.”

— John Cage

“I'd do anything for you, Tessa. I know you don't realize that now, but you will.”

— Aileen Erin

“I don't know how to write poetry, because I am the poetry.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“If you have to ask, what a poem is all about. You didn't feel it. ~ ”

— Lady Bug

“What of Tessa? Did you learn nothing from her?”

— Cassandra Clare