Bleach Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“some winters will never melt some summers will never freeze and some things will only ... live in poems.”

— Sanober Khan

“It is always a poet's winter.”

— Kate Braverman

Poets are always taking the weather so personally.

— Anonymous

“The time of minor poets is coming. Good-by Whitman, Dickinson, Frost. Welcome you whose fame will never reach beyond your closest family, and perhaps…

— Charles Simic

Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.

— J. D. Salinger

People should like poetry the way a child likes snow, and they would if poets wrote it.

— Wallace Stevens

A poem has secrets that the poet knows nothing of.

— Stanley Kunitz

People ought to like poetry the way a child likes snow & they would if poets wrote it.

— Wallace Stevens

“And so it’s hard for a certain kind of naïve mind at a restless, awakening time of year not to wonder, for example, what…

— Lisa R. Spaar

Ain't no sunshine when she's gone, only darkness every day.

— Bill Withers

What a contrast between the stern and desolate poetry of Ossian, and that of Chaucer, and even of Shakespeare and Milton, much more of…

— Henry David Thoreau

I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W.…

— J. Courtney Sullivan