Books Quote by Jane Rule

“With poetry, rules are meant to be broken. And that's the beauty of poetry; it's rebellious, like me.”

— Melody Lee

“If poets have to be in some way criminals, she thinks, nowadays criminals could try being poets.”

— Joseph McElroy

“That's what poems are for, so you don't understand a thing.”

— Tatyana Tolstaya

“Poetry wasn't written to be analysed: it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.”

— Nicholas Sparks

“Not a lawyer but carries within him the debris of a poet.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“Poetry was a way to combat the staid and formulaic language of politicians that opposed the flexible and dynamic language of poets and writers.”

— Azar Nafisi

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

— A. R. Ammons

“For me,” she wrote, “poetry is an evasion from the real job of writing prose.” Throughout”

— Sylvia Plath

“Poems are not for explaining," she said, her tone as bored and faintly scornful as his. "They are for pretty girls to read aloud.…

— Emily Horner

“She's an irritating, opinionated woman, a type Buddy can't stand. I don't think he could see her for what she is. A person, deprived,…

— J.D. Salinger

“Her love of words is a private passion - one she would rather not share. In the house of her childhood though everything had…

— Bell Hooks

“Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many…

— Oscar Wilde