Funny Quote by Gertrude Stein

The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about whats in style, whats current, what are…

— Robert Pinsky

Poetry is a river; many voices travel in it; poem after poem moves along in the exciting crests and falls of the river waves.…

— Mary Oliver

“The boys were amazed that I could make such a poem as that out of my own head, and so was I, of course,…

— Mark Twain

For you are abstract, making no mistake, slurring no word in the rhythm you make, the poem, writ in the air.

— Hilda Doolittle

For poetry is, I believe, always an act of the spirit. The poem teaches us something while we make it. The poem makes you…

— May Sarton

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

— Stephane Mallarme

I want to make a poem of my life.

— Yukio Mishima

“More words DO NOT make a poem bigger!”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

“How to be a Poet (to remind myself) i Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. You must depend upon affection,…

— Wendell Berry

“And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present—and can be         none in the future; And I will show that, whatever…

— Walt Whitman

Poets are excellent students of blizzards and salt and broken statuary, but they are always elsewhere for the test. Any intention in the writing…

— Dean Young

To make a poem, take one newspaper, one pair of scissors, snip the words one by one and put them in a bag. Shake…

— Tristan Tzara