Cloud Quote by Peter Straub

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

— Mark Strand

No poem is worth anything unless it starts from a poetic trance, out of which you can be wakened by interruption as from a…

— Robert Graves

I had been dreaming a complicated dream about helping poets revise their poems, so that each ending would open like a flower. I was…

— Diane Wakoski

Clouds are poems, and the most moving poems linger on the blackboard so long, written in cursive so lovely, they also exist inside our…

— Ann Beattie

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

— Bob Dylan

“Clouds and buttercups exist in poetry, but they are there only because storms and flowers populate the world too.”

— Daniel Tammet

“As human beings we’ve certainly suffered the loss of awe, the loss of sacredness, and the loss of the fact that we’re not here—…

— Derek Walcott

...and then, in dreaming, / The clouds methought would open and show riches / Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked /…

— William Shakespeare

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something

— Rita Dove

Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express.

— Erica Jong

For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.

— Langston Hughes

If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me poetical science?

— Ada Lovelace