Candle Quote by Henry James

“Their wedding night was in all truth a thing of beauty: the splendor of the celebrations, the hushed intimacy of a private walk under…

— Robert Coover

“If we find poetry in the service station and motel, if we are drawn to the airport or train carriage, it is perhaps because,…

— Alain de Botton

Poetry for me has been a long pilgrimage, a journey and a growing relationship with the unknown.

— David Whyte

“…wisely mingled poetry and prose.”

— Louisa May Alcott

The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn,…

— Keith Miller

“No matter how troubled the nights were, however, the days were extraordinary... pleasure filled, serene, imparting a sense of well-being that Christopher hadn't felt…

— Lisa Kleypas

“If I were a poet, that’s what I’d write about. People who worked in the middle of the night. Men who loaded trains, emergency…

— Janet Fitch

“It was a lot less pleasant than travel via a discorporated poet.”

— Jonathan L. Howard

“[Poetry] strips the veil of familiarity from the world, and lays bear the naked and sleeping beauty which is the spirit of its forms.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“We walked through night until there was a poem.”

— Brenda Hillman

“There's something to walking with autumnal thoughts through the evening fog. One likes to compose poems at a time like that.”

— Hermann Hesse

“...As the evening wore on (the supper did not end until seven in the morning), the public were admitted to watch the festivities from…

— Giles MacDonogh