Feet Quote by Shirley Geok-lin Lim

A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it.

— Randall Jarrell

Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

— Robert Frost

Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the…

— Jane Hirshfield

“Writing poetry is a passion, ignited by thoughts, fueled by ink. A way to travel through another mind, where souvenirs of tears are tucked…

— Renee Dixon

I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row,…

— Ron Rash

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

— Jean Cocteau

“A poem is a fictional, verbally inventive moral statement in which it is the author, rather than the printer or word processor, who decides…

— Terry Eagleton

The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.

— Gabriela Mistral

As you continue writing and rewriting, you begin to see possibilities you hadn't seen before. Writing a poem is always a process of discovery.

— Robert Hayden

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting andthen tie it up again, but differently.

— Anonymous

“To write or read a poem is . . . to enter into a different kind of thought world from our normal patterns. A…

— N.T. Wright

Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it…Like some animal.

— Denise Levertov