English class Quote by Harley King

“In another life I would have liked to be a poet, I just can’t stop the lines in time, so I’m a novelist.”

— Colum McCann

“For my part, I love to give myself up to the illusion of poetry. A hero of fiction that never existed is just as…

— Washington Irving

“A true poet writes from the language and experiences of their own heart, not those of others.”

— Suzy Kassem

“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.”

— W.H. Auden

“Poetry should forever be becoming and never perfected.”

— Friedrich Schlegel

Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of…

— Maxine Hong Kingston

“Poetry can be a peculiar gateway, Will. It can be a way into all kinds of things that don’t seem to have a way…

— Will Willingham

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without

— A. R. Ammons

“So many times in a single day we glimpse a view beyond the apparent. Write those moments down. They might not speak to you…

— Joy Williams

“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence. It forms the quality of light from which we predicate our…

— Audre Lorde

“If you can not be a poet, be the poem.”

— David Carradine

“Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death. The gift of art is a superior gift that allows…

— Ruben