Accidents Quote by Dan Beachy-Quick

He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

— John Milton

I think that in the process of writing, all kinds of unexpected things happen that shift the poet away from his plan and that…

— John Ashbery

Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.

— Oscar Wilde

“Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many…

— Oscar Wilde

That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise…

— A. R. Ammons

“He showed, in a few words, that it is not sufficient to throw together a few incidents that are to be met with in…

— Voltaire

“He was back at the point of departure, at the place that filled writers with dread and excitement, for this was where they must…

— Felix J. Palma

It's fun to see someone grow as a writer, moving from their first workshopped poems to publishing their earliest poems to having a book…

— Allison Joseph

I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've…

— Edward Hirsch

The only thing that's really important is the stuff he wrote. That's what he cared about, and that's what's worth protecting. The myth and…

— Jack Hemingway

The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don't wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait. I think…

— Sonia Sanchez

I like it when poems are challenging, when they concern matters important and personal to the author.

— Cate Marvin