Attention Quote by Gwendolyn Brooks

“One line lands in a word and one word lands in a line and there you have it the secret of poetry”

— Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore

That is the best instruction you could ever give a poet: whether you're examining a bad line in a poem or a bad motive…

— Alice Oswald

“Lineation can make your break your poems.”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line.

— Theodore Roethke

They’re called poems but in reality they’re lines given to me to hang on to

— John Trudell

Sometimes I have something stuck in my head and that directs the rhyme that I'm writing with.

— Courtney Barnett

“Poetry is like...first all you have is... A line weaving through your mind Like the tail of a child's kite Unfettered by reason or…

— Vaddey Ratner

You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Poetry?" ... "No, just thoughts, glimpses, things running through my head.”

— Anonymous

Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear.

— Thomas Lynch

Sometimes a poem appeals to me technically, just because of the way a line feels on my lips. Sometimes it is because it says…

— Frank Skinner

The line is a way of framing poetry. All verse is measured by lines. The poetic line immediately announces its difference from everyday speech…

— Edward Hirsch