Behinds Quote by Rumi

Although I was calm as a child, I had this restlessness about me–this need and hunger to create my own world. Poetry filled that…

— Masiela Lusha

The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood…

— Robert Frost

Poetry gave me back my voice.

— Maya Angelou

Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was.

— Stevie Nicks

“Poetry purrs like a kitten on the tip of our tongue. Each word fluidly floating from our lips, like little crystalline snowflakes, before settling…

— Jaeda DeWalt

“What madness, to love a man as something more than human! I lived in a fever, convulsed with tears and sighs that allowed me…

— St. Augustine

Poetry has been to me something more than amusement, it has been a cheering companion when I had no other to fly to, a…

— Henry Kirke White

My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.

— Edith Sitwell

My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. … it filled me with…

— William Carlos Williams

“Poetry Saved Me”

— Bev Flynn

“I am a butterfly poet birthed from pain flying with the freedom of my verses.”

— Susie Clevenger

“Poems were too close to prayer, rousing regrettable passions. Waiting for God to rescue you when it was up to you.”

— Colson Whitehead