Accompany Quote by Jack Prelutsky

Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it....Like some animal.

— Denise Levertov

Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions.

— Carl Sandburg

These poems are a mental sketch as formed / Passage by passage of light and shade / Maintained and preserved to this point /…

— Kenji Miyazawa

I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

— Lewis Carroll

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

Some poems are like the Centaurs--a mingling of man and beast, and begotten of Ixion on a cloud.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Once upon a time There was a friend Who poured some ink To a pen, which had been dried up Since then There are…

— Shasika Amali Munasinghe

Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. Also,…

— Mary Oliver

You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty. They come unsummoned, directly, indirectly - I could seize…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

— Jean Cocteau

Isn't it curious how one has only to open a book of verse to realise immediately that it was written by a very fine…

— Edith Sitwell

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting andthen tie it up again, but differently.

— Anonymous