Books Quote by Maria Edgeworth

Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come.

— Galway Kinnell

“The way contemporary literature is emerging, soon we can expect "Item poetry" in novels.”

— Himmilicious

For the poets, my hope is that they will, quite simply, feel the obligation to be really informed about the situation in which we…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

“Predators prey on the weak; poets prey on brilliant ideas.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

If we go on as we are, we will destroy in the next century everything that the poets have been singing about for the…

— Fred Bodsworth

I don't know if we ever have enough distance to "see" our own trajectory. We're in the muddled middle of it. Who knows what…

— Dorianne Laux

“If they succeed, you will not be packed off to some idyllic farm, where you can write bad poetry, we will both be executed.”

— A. H. Septimius

“This is my last communique from the planet of the monsters. Never again will I immerse myself in literature's bottomless cesspools. I will go…

— Roberto Bolaño

When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken…

— Denis Diderot

“Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I could murder you with a poem, instead I’ll give birth to a galaxy of clones, and raise an army of poetic drones, to…

— DeJuan Cuffee

“…description is deadly to a prose poem.”

— Russell Edson