Funny Quote by Masaoka Shiki

Take your materials from what is around you - if you see a dandelion, write about that; if it's misty, write about the mist.…

— Masaoka Shiki

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.

— Muriel Rukeyser

The materials of true poetry are always humble, absolutely idiosyncratic, the autobiographical tatters that, in gifted hands, are made into the memoir that fits…

— Patricia Hampl

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

— Virginia Woolf

Poetry is God's work.

— Katy Lederer

I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.

— Kevin Powers

You speak As one who fed on poetry.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple…

— Bo Burnham

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

— William Hughes Mearns

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight…

— A. R. Ammons

In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst…

— Franz Kafka

Every poem, formal or free, has an ideal shape, and the job of the poet is to find it.

— Peter Meinke