Bones Quote by Robert Hass

“I must lie down where all the ladders start, in the foul rag and bone shop of the heart.”

— William Butler Yeats

“... Those masterful images because complete Grew in pure mind, but out of what began? A mound of refuse or the sweepings of a…

— W.B. Yeats

“We write a line we're especially proud of, and weeks later find it staring -no glaring - back at us from some stanza in…

— Robin Behn

“Just about everyone has the heart of a poet inside them, yet sometimes you need to break through the rib cage to reach it.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“Poetry is like...first all you have is... A line weaving through your mind Like the tail of a child's kite Unfettered by reason or…

— Vaddey Ratner

“One line lands in a word and one word lands in a line and there you have it the secret of poetry”

— Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore

“Into the wind we vary, Our hearts free of youth, Mold me into envy, If I can’t have your muse; Under toe, Walk to…

— Adrianna Stepiano

“I’ve had enough of chasing after poetry; I believe that poetry lies at one’s very door or perhaps in one’s very bed. I’m still…

— Gérard de Nerval

“Midway between the too soiled ground and the too-sublime vaults, at the level of the air, entering the skin of the role, poetry plays…

— Michel Leiris

“Poetry is what you find in the dirt in the corner, overhear on the bus, God in the details, the only way to get…

— Elizabeth Alexander

“And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that 'knowing a book by heart is like carrying a…

— Hisham Matar

“A poet in his senses knocks vainly at the gates of poetry.”

— Ben Johnson