Poetry Quote by Jeff VanderMeer

“As though to fortify me she took the letter out and placed it on the table between us. Its pages were folded, yellowed like…

— Tan Twan Eng

“The act of writing itself is like an act of love. There is contact. There is exchange too. We no longer know whether the…

— Georges Rodenbach

“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

“If you put the words on a page and you believe in them, then it’s a poem.”

— Ewuare Osayande

“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

“Poets must first ponder themselves and learn to see the beauty within them to allow the beauty to spill out of them in ink…

— Jeffrey G. Duarte

“Words in a poem are like petals on a flower, only together, in the right position, at the right time are they seen as…

— David McDonald

“A poet writes what they see every day, what they know, what they’ve lived or barely lived through.”

— Jason E. Hodges

“What was hard was discovering the true life of the poem inside its technical scaffolding.”

— Linda Wagner-Martin

“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…

— Theresa Rough PhD

“The poem finds the word that finds the feeling.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“Life is a poem just waiting to be written, lift your pen and speak.”

— Susie Clevenger