Poetry Quote by Hussein Nishah

“ I wax poetic On the beauty of sewers Real short poem. Done ”

— Rick Riordan

“I wax poetic On the beauty of sewers Real short poem.”

— Rick Riordan

Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom.

— Robert Frost

I like the poem on the page and not at the podium. I like to address the poem in peace and quiet, not on…

— Ted Kooser

“I write poems to save myself, to preserve in ink memories of me long after my soul has dissolved and my bones melted, joined…

— Ayokunle Falomo

I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

— Honore de Balzac

Most of the time I'm not really attracted to writing that's focused on filling and fighting it out within a well-defined container. I like…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

A good poem is an amazing thing: a perfectly distilled, articulate moment. It opens you up - sometimes slowly, like the blooming of a…

— Celeste Ng

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

— Andrew Motion

Don’t underestimate this gift of finding a place in the writing world: if you really work at describing creatively on paper the truth as…

— Anne Lamott

One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music, you didn't…

— Jane Hirshfield

“A poem is a fictional, verbally inventive moral statement in which it is the author, rather than the printer or word processor, who decides…

— Terry Eagleton