History Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“The history of man is a must read poetry.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“The movement Of the body is Where poetry Begins”

— Clint Catalyst

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

— Suzy Kassem

“How had his life become one a poet would be proud of?”

— Ellie Macdonald

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“there are these places on your poem, / where I want to write bodies.”

— Mikl Paul

“Poems ought to reflect the work the poet does, and his relationships with other people, and family, and institutions, and organization.”

— Wallace Stegner

“He had to remind himself that the work of a surgeon is poetry of a kind, in which blood is the meaning and flesh…

— Kathleen Winter

“Every poet puts a part of their soul in each of their poems. ”

— Jennifer Owen

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“Poetry is man’s best means of perceiving most profoundly the action and the consequence of his own emotions.”

— John Ciardi

“a poet can always find something good to write about.”

— Colleen Houck