Dropping Quote by Don Marquis

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

— Don Marquis

“Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”

— Don Marquis

Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.

— Czeslaw Milosz

I can scarcely fancy myself to ask a superior to publish a volume of my verse and I own that humanly there is very…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a…

— Anonymous

I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with a comparable…

— Hal Duncan

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver

Prose proposes, verse reverses.

— Richard Howard

...hymns have been a powerful instrument of God to draw people closer to His Word and the saving riches therein.

— Billy Graham

On the one hand, I have wanted to supply documentation on myself by including material relevant to my emotions and ideas in my youth;…

— Edmund Wilson

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

— Robert Frost

“If you take [a copy of] the Christian Bible and put it out in the wind and the rain, soon the paper on which…

— Carol McGrath