Poetry Quote by Jacob Oet Download Open image ““An unfinished poem is a half-built house, windows of air through the scaffolding.”” — Jacob Oet ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry
“What was hard was discovering the true life of the poem inside its technical scaffolding.” — Linda Wagner-Martin Copy Share Image
“My Poem is life, and not finished. It shall never be finished. My Poem is life, and can grow.” — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
“The scrawled letters form words, the words form lines, the lines form a poem. Your eyes scanning across the page give the poem life.” — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what was seen during a moment.” — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“A well-made poem is a little haunted house, a tangible dwelling place for the spirit” — Daniel Veach Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.” — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Only a house, quiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“Poet Wrestling with Words Some are clouds, mist, vapor Some are diaries written with tears Some appear like dew--a Friend in Time of need--some are mirrors-- Inkblots of a sorry soul-- Some are written on Rock-- Some are built on sand Some are wind-blowing, dust-blinding Some blow away dust, helping me to See--as if in infancy.” — Theresa Rough PhD Copy Share
“Look through the unfinished entrance facade, note blue sky where the stained-glass windows would have been, and ponder the struggles, triumphs, and failures of… — Rick Steves Copy Share Image
“Sounds remain to remind you of me, Easing of rain through trees, bare heels slapping floor.” — Jacob Oet Copy Share Image
“Your lips signed me, your tongue sealed me, Your cheeks like the first snowfall over autumn ground.” — Jacob Oet Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
