Quote by Julie Powell

“He tethered me to him, my magnetic north, while my mind went here or there. I always knew. Somehow I always knew.”

— T.J. Klune

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

— Jason E. Hodges

“As I was walking up the stairs to my dad's old room, and I was looking at the old photographs, I started thinking that…

— Stephen Chobosky

I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me - I…

— Maya Angelou

“In the deep glens where they lived, all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“Their old life seemed far away and remote to him now, like a dream he could not quite remember. The bright green grass, the…

— Julie Otsuka

“This poem serves to remind That food, it tends to spoil Leave it in your memory Not in the fridge, in foil.”

— Madeleine Blais

“Did the poet know how lucky he was, to have such beautiful words and a place to put them and keep them?”

— Ally Condie

“And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that 'knowing a book by heart is like carrying a…

— Hisham Matar

“But I am wise if not yet quite old, wanting the poem more than the lover, wanting words more than the sticky dew men…

— Erica Jong

“They reminded him of something—what was it?—some memory, some picture. He strove to find it and then it came of itself. It rose out…

— John Steinbeck

“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.”

— W.H. Auden