Poetry Quote by Maureen McLane

“The Universal Turtle Verse I spend the day nibbling rent-free Underneath the Giving Tree. Me, Rirty Dat and Snerry Jake Show Runny Babbit how…

— J. Patrick Lewis

S. E. Smith's I Live in a Hut has a deceptively simple title, considering that the brain in that hut contains galaxies-worth of invention:…

— Matthea Harvey

The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they…

— James Welch

“And as we sat there in the silence with the stars burning in the purple deeps of the summer night above us, we dreamed…

— Hearn Lafcadio

“Having completed that emotional collapse, I next bounce off a little vision-quest right as the steady drumbeat accelerates into the Fearing Time: desert monuments…

— Randolph Crowley

When I first encountered the poems of Jon Woodward, I was stunned into the state that is my life's joy-I was in the presence…

— Mary Ruefle

I do not like poems that resemble hay compressed into a geometrically perfect cube. I like it when the hay, unkempt, uncombed, with dry…

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“….unable to find a title for her last published novel, she wrote six lines which included her eventual title The Birds Fall Down. These…

— Victoria Glendinning

When I started writing poetry, it was always in very hip-hop influenced spaces: Someone would teach a Nas song side-by-side with a Gwendolyn Brooks…

— Jamila Woods

“I went walking really early in the morning, you know when stars are yawning and closing their eyes, and flowers and grass begin to…

— Jonathan Renshaw

“Birds are poems I haven't caught yet”

— Jim Harrison

Some poems present themselves as cliffs that need to be climbed. Others are so defensive that when you approach their enclosure you half expect…

— Stanley Kunitz