Alphabet Quote by Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I was walking every morning, and I'd take my iPod and paper and pen. As I walked, I wrote a poem, and then I'd come…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

'Alphabet' by the late Danish poet Inger Christensen. It's a book-length abecedarian poem. It's an activist text but also a portal to wonder.

— Jenny Zhang

“Volumes of history written in the ancient alphabet of G and C, A and T.”

— Sy Montgomery

Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.

— Carl Sandburg

Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“The words of the letter had long since been whisked away by time, but the poems he kept prisoner in his heart.”

— Felix Alexander

Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.

— Irving Stone

“he was walking poetry, a walking poem”

— Bemy Wells

I am intrigued and even moved by the idea of being right with the reader in the actuality that she or he is reading…

— Matthew Zapruder

Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and…

— Vera Nazarian

Poems are rough notations for the music we are.

— Anonymous

There was an author who titled his books by days of the weeks and another one that used colors. Then there was Edward Gorey…

— Sue Grafton