Poetry Quote by Louise Closser Hale Download Open image “I guess the quality that makes one write poetry keeps one from selling it.” — Louise Closser Hale ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry Quality Selling Writing
People who publish poetry today do it from a sense that poetry needs to be published, not because they think they are going to… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see. — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were — John Donne Copy Share Image
Poetry is probably the one field of writing in which it is a mistake to try to psych out editors. In fact, specific marketing… — X. J. Kennedy Copy Share Image
People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways. — Clive James Copy Share Image
Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“Poetry ought to be a by-product of living, and you can't have a by-product unless you've got a product first .” — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Love! The poor word. How it has suffered up and down the streets of the world. — Louise Closser Hale Copy Share Image
Even those who lose the battle are not cowards - if they have fought. — Louise Closser Hale Copy Share Image
London is like a woman with too many years to encourage confession. — Louise Closser Hale Copy Share Image
The spring in Boston is like being in love: bad days slip in among the good ones, and the whole world is at a… — Louise Closser Hale Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
