Life Quote by Linda Wagner-Martin

“An unfinished poem is a half-built house, windows of air through the scaffolding.”

— Jacob Oet

“The crazy thing about poetry is how its simplicity makes it complicated.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“a poet can always find something good to write about.”

— Colleen Houck

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

— Jason E. Hodges

“also, the oldest notion still in vogue is that if you can’t understand a poem then it almost certainly is a good one.”

— Charles Bukowski

“The poem no longer transcended reality.”

— Jean Améry

“Life is equal parts strange and beautiful and horrible, and we’re tossed into it without a map or an instruction guide. Poems and stories…

— Chuck Wendig

“It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Poetry is simple when you write what you see and feel, searching for the words only makes it difficult”

— Rayvon L. Browne

“Poetry had always seemed something I could turn to in need - an emergency exit, a lifebuoy, as well as a justification.”

— John Fowles

“The scrawled letters form words, the words form lines, the lines form a poem. Your eyes scanning across the page give the poem life.”

— Jeff VanderMeer

“Maybe if we re-invent whatever our lives give us we find poems.”

— Naomi Shihab Nye