Brain Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“People are looking for chimes and resonances. Chimes leave echoes, and that's what rhyme is. Poetry is about leaving an echo imprint in somebody…

— Diana Georgeff

Songs are usually unfit for whistling - indeed, whistling (except to the person doing it) is unbearable.

— Anne Bosworth Greene

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver

The sense of flowing, which is so crucial to song, is also crucial to poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

A phrase may come to me as I am walking, and, once I write it down in my journal, the rest of the poem…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

“Poetry is a distinct faculty, - it won't come when called, - you may as well whistle for a wind.”

— George Gordon Byron

These days, if you happen to be a poet you have to sing your words to get your ideas out.

— Sara Genn

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

— William Shenstone

It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.

— Virginia Woolf

Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.

— Howard Nemerov

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were…

— C. Day Lewis