Creation Quote by Megan McCafferty

“I believe the poem is a sacramental act, pure devotion to whatever may be revealed only through the music of intuition. The dance of…

— Sam Hamill

“Exactly right—folded quietly and knitted in right along with the working DNA there is a shadow self. This won’t surprise poets. We carry our…

— Louise Erdrich

“Its substance was known to me. The crawling infinity of colours, the chaos of textures that went into each strand of that eternally complex…

— China Miéville

“The Throes of Poetry - Hymns formed from groans of acquaintance, its rhythm weaving between tranquility, compassions, and peril - like bare feet stomping…

— Traci Lea LaRussa

“Sonnet V I touch you as a lonely violin touches the suburbs of the faraway place patiently the river asks for its share of…

— Mahmoud Darwish

“In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love come to life again and fill it with majesty and exaltation. And those who…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars,…

— George Jean Nathan

“The words of the true poems give you more than poems, They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior,…

— Walt Whitman

“ Poetry And it was at that age... Poetry arrived in search of me. I don’t know, I don’t know where it came from,…

— Pablo Neruda

“The sonnet, a lyrical poem, the beauty and magic... convey with our hearts the truth of the universe in a single moment briefly.”

— R.M. Engelhardt

The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“There is always an unspeakable where, perhaps, the nucleus of the living relation between the poem and the world resides.”

— Adrienne Rich