Books Quote by Don Marquis

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

— Don Marquis

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

— Don Marquis

I love poetry. If my mind gets a bit tight or bound up with information or depressed with bad news, I find a good…

— Mark Rylance

In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence:…

— Confucius

I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.

— Anonymous

I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.

— Nell Freudenberger

I hadn't published a book of poetry in over a decade because I've been very ill. As I got better and started to write,…

— Ntozake Shange

My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

— Tao Lin

There is a whole book of poetry written by a woman with sucidial ideation, borderline personality disorder, major depression and who is a self…

— Sue E Cidal

“There's a book of poetry in the lines of my hands that no one wants to read”

— Holly Schindler

If i write a book it will probably be a book about how not to use the internet or a book of poetry.

— Misha Collins

“The poet can’t stand the quiet. She can’t stand the buzzing in her head. The murmur of memory. The poet picks up a book…

— Trista Mateer