First time Quote by Dorothy L. Sayers

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

— Joseph Joubert

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

— Joseph Joubert

I found the poems in the fields And only wrote them down

— John Clare

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.

— Helen Dunmore

I never find words right away. Poems for me always begin with images and rhythms, shapes, feelings, forms, dances in the back of my…

— Gary Snyder

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

— Carol Ann Duffy

Poets play with words to keep themselves sane

— Eyedea

I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work.

— Joy Harjo

Poems tend to have instructions for how to read them embedded in their language.

— Matthea Harvey

“Poetry is simple when you write what you see and feel, searching for the words only makes it difficult”

— Rayvon L. Browne

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

— Plato

The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky…

— Janet Fitch