Heat Quote by Charles Simic

Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.

— Robert Hass

To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—

— Emily Dickinson

Words have a love for each other, a desire that culminates in poetry.

— Mary Ruefle

It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.

— Erica Jong

One must love a poet on its own terms.

— Paul Gray

Poetry has been to me something more than amusement, it has been a cheering companion when I had no other to fly to, a…

— Henry Kirke White

“A poet is intensely in love with live and passionately wants to express his or her experience with love and beauty.”

— Debasish Mridha

Poetry is frosted fire.

— J. Patrick Lewis

Poetry is fired by love.

— Erica Jong

Prose is walking; poetry is flying

— Galway Kinnell

Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters.

— Carl Sandburg

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for…

— Hannah Arendt