Fire Quote by Jose Garcia Villa

“First, a poem must be magical, then musical as a sea-gull.”

— Jose Garcia Villa

Like fire poetry is a shadow that makes the heart want more. When you see that all you're is words, the water extinguishes the…

— Jeremy Limn

Poetry is frosted fire.

— J. Patrick Lewis

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

— William Shenstone

For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic.

— James Broughton

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet…

— Boris Pasternak

Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly.

— Carl Sandburg

“The thing about fires most people don’t realise is the noise. It’s deafening so even if you shout, you can’t be heard three feet…

— Bryce Courtenay

Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

— Dennis Gabor

Poetry, just because it is poetry, doesn't mean it is some kind of magic spell.

— Franz Wright