Bones Quote by Janet Fitch

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

— 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

If you want to write poetry, you must have poems that deeply move you. Poems you can't live without. I think of a poem…

— Ralph Fletcher

My advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world -…

— e. e. cummings

Learn poetry by heart. If you know a poem by heart, no one can take it away from you, and you can take advantage…

— Raymond Aubrac

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

— Sanober Khan

Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems.

— Joy Harjo

As a child, I learned hundreds of poems by heart, which I can recite to this day.

— Caterina Fake

Poetry helps my soul escape its encasement.

— Maya Angelou

Poetry can keep life itself alive. You can endure almost anything as long as you can sing about it.

— James Wright

When you get a class reciting some great poems, it'll tear your heart out.

— Derek Walcott

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

— Walter Scott