Blood Quote by R. S. Thomas

Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?

— George Crabbe

“Here they have no time for the fine graces of poetry, unless it freely grows in deep compulsion, like water in the well, woven…

— Iain Crichton Smith

“Nowhere in Chaucer do we find what can be called a radically allegorical poem.”

— C.S. Lewis

My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm,…

— James Fenton

Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet…

— Boris Pasternak

I think poems return us to that place of mud and dirt and earth, sun and rain.

— Kevin Young

“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

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something…

— Mary Oliver

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something…

— Mary Oliver

Poetry is the overflowing of the Soul.

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

“In the beginning, poets make their best efforts to fit words into their rhyme and lyric. However, as time passes and the ink mystifies,…

— Alok Mishra

“Terence, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can’t be much amiss, ’tis clear, To see the rate you drink…

— A.E. Housman Marcus Manilius