May Quote by Howard Nemerov

“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.

— Robert Frost

The more that accrues, the more depth, weight, and breadth we can bring to the poems, which we then need to throw overboard so…

— Dorianne Laux

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

— Horace

Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all…

— Lauren Oliver

There is a kind of poetry in simple fact.

— Edward Abbey

Like all art, poems are only hints and guesses that draw our attention to something larger.

— Luci Shaw

A poem is a frozen moment melted by each reader for themselves to flow into the here and now.

— Hilde Domin

Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet…

— Boris Pasternak

I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual…

— Eavan Boland

The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent,…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

There are some books in which every poem is a facet of the same thing. So the book is like a piece of music.…

— Joan Larkin