Chromosomes Quote by Marianne Moore

Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.

— Margaret Atwood

chromosomal dance oh, heavenly happenstance rare creation, you -Marcus (Poetry Spam #22)

— Megan McCafferty

Writing a poem is discovering.

— Robert Frost

A poem doesn’t come out and tell you what it has to say. It circles back on itself, eating its own tail and making…

— Franny Billingsley

A poem is like a score for the human voice.

— Li-Young Lee

The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific…

— Margaret Atwood

“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

Creating the perfect lyrics is not a process, it's just something that comes in your brain.

— Jadakiss

Often you've read another poem that you think is so beautiful that you'd like to make something like that. And so you try to…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.

— Carl Sandburg

Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear.

— Thomas Lynch

“Lurking behind this connecting silence is a brooding suspicion over the extent to which the perceptual user-preferences of the human animal limit and distort…

— Don Paterson