Cold Quote by Hanshan

Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.

— Seamus Heaney

Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in an otherwise…

— Edward Hirsch

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

— Matthea Harvey

If you're looking for a place to rest Cold Mountain is good for a long stay The breeze blowing through the dark pines Sounds…

— Hanshan

“Books become my refuge. Reading keeps me hopeful. I fall in love with small poems, the shorter the better- haiku from Japan, and tiny…

— Margarita Engle

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

— Joseph Joubert

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

— Joseph Joubert

Hyesims poems: transformative as walking high granite mountains by moonlight, with fragrant herbs underfoot and a thermos of clear tea in the backpack. Their…

— Jane Hirshfield

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

— Thomas Lynch

Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.

— Robert Hass

I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of.

— Robert Frost

“People say I must be cold–natured—sexless—on account of it. But I won’t have it! Some of the most passionately erotic poets have been the…

— Thomas Hardy