Poetry Quote by Chelsey Minnis Download Open image ““Poetry should be like 'Uh-huh. Baby has to have it.”” — Chelsey Minnis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry Poetry quotes
“I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry as I need it.” — John Cage Copy Share Image
“I am certain, my love, that poetry was born only after your birth.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-haired child.” — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“The crazy thing about poetry is how its simplicity makes it complicated.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a story that is so good, It doesn't need complete sentences.” — John Smyth Copy Share Image
“Poetry is like...first all you have is... A line weaving through your mind Like the tail of a child's kite Unfettered by reason or… — Vaddey Ratner Copy Share Image
“(A)t least simulated vulnerability is bearable/for those/who cannot/withstand unreasonable tenderness.” — Chelsey Minnis Copy Share Image
“A poem is all that's left of my lost loneliness... It is like a window that looks into a swimming pool... Or an a… — Chelsey Minnis Copy Share Image
“The aquamarine becomes invisible when you place it into the sea. It seems like birds should have aquamarine beaks that they can dip into… — Chelsey Minnis Copy Share Image
“I will tell you what is poetry... It is a remote electronic claw picking up a stuffed bunny rabbit...” — Chelsey Minnis Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
