Crafts Quote by Theodore Roethke

“Fool. He's as bad as Watson, trying to throw himself in harm's way for the sake of the Great Detective.”

— Emma Jane Holloway

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

— Frank Wedekind

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

— William Penn

My advice to the reader approaching a poem is to make the mind still and blank. Let the poem speak. This charged quiet mimics…

— Camille Paglia

There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.

— Dana Goodyear

Readers bring their own experiences, their own range of - their own wisdom, their own knowledge, their own insights to poem and the meaning…

— Edward Hirsch

Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear.

— Thomas Lynch

In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read…

— Caroline Kennedy

If at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you've written one line of…

— e. e. cummings

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing…

— Anonymous

“It is a two-line poem, which could be really sweet, or sour at times and it depends, totally on the way we use it.”

— Saravana Kumar Murugan

After the last line of a poem, nothing follows except literary criticism.

— Joseph Brodsky