4th of july Quote by e. e. cummings

I haven't written poetry in a long time but I read it and I miss it. It is so hard to write. So hard…

— Ellen Gilchrist

I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have. I try to give to…

— Alex Lemon

I think the coming of spring, the stars overhead, the first snowfall and so on are gifts for a child, a young poet.

— Sylvia Plath

“My Poetry book ”

— Rabisha

“It is winter now, and the roses are blooming again, their petals bright against the snow. My father died last April; my sisters no…

— Jane Yolen

“Grandiflora Roses — Fragrant Cloud, Lady X, Pink Parfait, Pristine, Swarthmore, First Prize, Granada, Mister”

— Maggie Oster

“Literary Lipsticks by Elaine Equi The Best American Poetry Red Wheelbarrow I Have Eaten the Plums Poppies in October Pink Christmas Red Weather A…

— Elaine Equi

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

— Don Marquis

“Beauty walks this world. It ages everything. I am far and I am an animal and I am just another I-am poem, a we-see…

— Peter Gizzi

“There's something to walking with autumnal thoughts through the evening fog. One likes to compose poems at a time like that.”

— Hermann Hesse

“poetry! Indeed, verses are the only thing that your letter lacks, Makar Alexievitch. And what tender feelings I can read in it—what roseate-coloured fancies!…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The poetry is myself.

— Gwendolyn Brooks