Poetry Quote by John Geddes

“There is an Anglo-Saxon form of riddling that plays with the polarities of words like bright and dark, cold and warm, throwing them against…

— Gerald Hausman

“Since the age of fifteen poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or performed any relationship that…

— Robert Graves

“She saw poetry where other writers merely saw failure to cope with English.”

— Alice Walker

“You—and I’ll venture every third writer in Europe nowadays—fancies himself a poet, when all you’re doing is building little towers of words set prettily…

— Therese Anne Fowler

“The prompt didn’t help me much, since all poems were difficult for me to write. They were like mirrors you held up to a…

— Brittany Cavallaro

“You cannot spell Poetry without try”

— Brandon Villasenor

“A true poet writes from the language and experiences of their own heart, not those of others.”

— Suzy Kassem

“That's what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better”

— Jay Asher

“Outside the study hall the next fall, the fall of our senior year, the Nabisco plant baked sweet white bread twice a week. If…

— Annie Dillard

“I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to read them…

— C.S. Lewis

“I do not write poetry; I take words and dip them in feelings.”

— Arti Honrao

“It takes more energy to find the words to describe poems than almost anything I can think of, except of course for trying to…

— Robert Newman