Bears Quote by Susan B. Anthony

There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and…

— Gary Ross

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

— Carol Ann Duffy

Some of you been trying to write rhymes for years, But weak ideas irritate my ears. Is this the best that you can make?…

— Rakim

It is not enough for poems to be fine; they must charm, and draw the mind of the listener at will.

— Horace

Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.

— A. E. Housman

Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not…

— Seamus Heaney

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were…

— C. Day Lewis

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

— John Keats

“If I could sum up my poetry in a few well-chosen words, the result might be a poem. Several years ago, when I was…

— Anthony Thwaite

In fact, lots of good poetry doesn't work , so I don't mind a bit of mystification or difficulty.

— Nick Laird

I think it's important to know how to free in case you fall of what you've written, you can be able to keep going…

— Kurupt

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

— Don Marquis