Approach Quote by Deborah Jowitt

“I knew that sunny citrus helped put things in focus, sharpened the memory, just like a squeeze of lemon juice could sharpen and clarify…

— Judith Fertig

Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.]

— Juvenal

It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as…

— John Dewey

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

— Anne Stevenson

I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it,…

— Stella Benson

“Making it in poetry The young teller at the credit union asked why so many small checks from universities? Because I write poems I…

— Bob Hicok

The act of making poetry is an act of hope.

— Natasha Trethewey

Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.

— A. A. Milne

Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose for art…

— Mark McMorris

If you were making poetry out of convictions - trying to convince other people - you were in the territory of rhetoric, and that…

— Robert Hass

Slogan-making is not poetry.

— Ernesto Cardenal

It is not consistent with truth that a man should sacrifice half of his stomach only to God-that he should be sober in drinking,…

— Tertullian