Break Quote by Daniil Kharms

Good writing is like a windowpane.

— George Orwell

I’ve written this poem before but always through a window, never through an open door.

— Andrea Gibson

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

— Ezra Pound

When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A poem is a window that hangs between two or more human beings who otherwise live in darkened rooms.

— Stephen Dobyns

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.

— Billy Collins

Its not easy to write a poem about a poem.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

— Ishmael Reed

Poetry is not a code to be broken but a way of seeing with the eyes shut.

— Linda Pastan

“Sometimes I say to a poem, "I don't have the strength To wring out another drop Of the sun." And the poem will often…

— شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Khwāja Šams ud-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Šīrāzī

I often think of a poem as a door that opens into a room where I want to go.

— Minnie Bruce Pratt

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

— Horace