Books Quote by Margarita Engle

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

— Rayvon L. Browne

“My Poetry book ”

— Rabisha

I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems of Emily.…

— Maurice Sendak

“Poets and poetry help us express our emotions and experiences, making us feel less alone in our struggles.”

— Wajid Shaikh

I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general.

— Richard Flanagan

poems are small moments of enlightenment

— Natalie Goldberg

Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as short or…

— Campbell McGrath

“The time of minor poets is coming. Good-by Whitman, Dickinson, Frost. Welcome you whose fame will never reach beyond your closest family, and perhaps…

— Charles Simic

“A month alone behind closed doors forgotten books, remembered, clear again. Poems come, like water to the pool Welling, up and out, from perfect…

— Yuan Mei

“A poem a day keeps the shrink away.”

— Harold F Vance III

“When I write poetry, I’ll write it down, or a tiny bit of it, and then have to depend on the reader to bring…

— William Anderson

“Some poems take us places where no words reach, no thought, they take you up to the core itself, life stops for one moment…

— Jón Kalman Stefánsson