Poems Quote by Janet Fitch

“Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like Fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious…

— Janet Finch

Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious…

— Janet Fitch

“poetry melts my bones. enters my blood. and changes its composition.”

— Sanober Khan

“This is how I recognize an authentic poet: by frequenting him, living a long time in the intimacy of his work, something changes in…

— emil cioran

“The thin red jellies within you or within me, the bones and the marrow in the bones, The exquisite realization of health; O I…

— Walt Whitman

“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

“How do poems grow? They begin deep down in the pit of the soul as a seedling of a thought …”

— Nanette L. Avery

The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.

— Andrea Gibson

Natural, hell! What was it Chaucer Said once about the long toil that goes like blood to the poems making? Leave it to nature…

— R. S. Thomas

“We became poets before we learned to walk Our roots dug deep with the slight touch of love Our leaves sprouted after pain.”

— Avijeet Das

What will they say about my poetry who never touched my blood?

— Pablo Neruda

“All of these teeth had once been in real, live people. They had talked and smiled and eaten and sang and cursed and prayed.…

— Gabrielle Zevin