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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

— Robert Frost

“Poetry flows from our hearts. It is like that mass of snow we call a glacier and when it starts its slow movement, it…

— Balroop Singh

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred…

— Robert Frost

Poetry is frosted fire.

— J. Patrick Lewis

A poem is an instant of lucidity in which the entire organism participates.

— Charles Simic

“some winters will never melt some summers will never freeze and some things will only ... live in poems.”

— Sanober Khan

It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of…

— Howard Nemerov

“Poetry purrs like a kitten on the tip of our tongue. Each word fluidly floating from our lips, like little crystalline snowflakes, before settling…

— Jaeda DeWalt

“Poetry is when emotion blooms like flowers with the petals of words and spreads the fragrance of perception.”

— Debasish Mridha

Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for having expected…

— Tracy K. Smith

a poem is like a wine glass in which you can hold up a little bit of reality and taste it.

— Gwen Harwood

A poem is like a painting.

— Horace