Age Quote by Peleg Top

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

— Vincent Van Gogh

The form of a poem is invisible. A poem is not an "object." This is hard to accept in a mechanical age.

— Wendell Berry

There are poems inside of you that paper can’t handle.

— Yz

A poem is like a child; at some point we have to let it go and trust that it will make its own way…

— Dorianne Laux

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

— Eugenio Montale

but paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages…

— Lynda Barry

Our lives are written in disappearing ink.

— Michelle Cliff

This is the nature of love." Vashet said. "To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. This is what keeps poets scribbling…

— Patrick Rothfuss

A poem is a box, a thing, to put other things in. For safe keeping.

— Marianne Boruch

When I think of someone equating poems and machines, it makes me feel like that person would like poems to have a more obvious…

— Elaine Equi

Writing a poem is discovering.

— Robert Frost

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the…

— Wislawa Szymborska