Craftsmanship Quote by Dylan Thomas

“Poetry survives because it haunts and it haunts because it is simultaneously utterly clear and deeply mysterious; because it cannot be entirely accounted for,…

— Louise Glück

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

— John Ashbery

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

— Joy Harjo

Craft is a trick you make up to let you write the poem.

— Anne Sexton

Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized heart there…

— C.D. Wright

“Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what was seen during a moment.”

— Carl Sandburg

The poet must work with brush and paper,but this is not what makes the poem. A man does not go in search of a…

— Yang Wanli

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred…

— Robert Frost

A poem is a box, a thing, to put other things in. For safe keeping.

— Marianne Boruch

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

— Oscar Wilde

A poem is a spider web Spun with words of wonder, Woven lace held in place By whispers made of thunder.

— Charles Ghigna

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something…

— Mary Oliver