Colony Quote by Langston Hughes

“It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was.”

— Patti Smith

“Remember, words are the enemy of poetry.”

— Russell Edson

“War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. Poetics and philosophies disintegrate…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

“Government property. Trespassers will be prosecuted." The sweetest poetry is written on the signs you walk up to from the back, and the best…

— Vironika Tugaleva

“i see poets riding the red winds unchecked by the borders of time, wandering with light feet over the land mines and trip wires,…

— Peter Standish Evans

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life.

— Eavan Boland

“Poetry is again hip in America as people are beginning to refuse to die of boredom and to choke in the fog of their…

— Andrei Codrescu

“Poetry emerges from the depths of struggle. It comes up fighting, demanding to be heard.”

— Aisha Mirza

“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

“Even the simplest poem May destroy your immunity to human emotions. All poems must carry a Government warning. Words Can seriously affect your heart.”

— Elma Mitchell

“Poetry is mother-tongue of the human race; as gardening is older than agriculture; painting than writing; song than declamation; parables,—than deductions; barter,—than trade.”

— Johann Georg Hamann

“One line lands in a word and one word lands in a line and there you have it the secret of poetry”

— Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore