Believe Quote by Joy Harjo

I still believe many poets begin in fear and hope: fear that the poetic past will turn out to be a monologue rather than…

— Eavan Boland

Listen to presences inside poems, Let them take you where they will. Follow those private hints, and never leave the premises.

— Rumi

Listen to presences inside poems.

— Rumi

When I was a boy, I choked on a piece of candy outside the kitchen window for a few minutes while watching my parents…

— Zachary Schomburg

“I breathe in... The sights and smells Of this city I’ve come to know... So well I gaze... Across the turquoise ocean Where the…

— Sanober Khan

“Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: 'Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy”

— Christina Rossetti

“I never have time to write anymore. And when I do I only write about how I never have time. It's work and it's…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“Always write exactly what you’re feeling at the exact moment when writing something like poetry or an emotional novel. Put yourself, pour all emotions…

— Nina Jean Slack

Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong.

— Marilyn Nelson

Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.]

— Horace

There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof, there would…

— Michael Chabon

Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural…

— Aberjhani

“[poems are] crystals deposited after the effervescent contact of the spirit with reality. (cristaux deposes apres l'effervescent contact de l'esprit avec la realite)”

— Pierre Reverdy

One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish…

— Anita Diament

Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to…

— Susan Glaspell