Beautiful Quote by Tim Minchin

I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from Knoxville who…

— Garrison Keillor

My poems are like a dagger Sprouting flowers from the hilt; My poetry is like a fountain Sprinkling streams of coral water.

— Jose Marti

I've written some poetry, but...songs have to be more poetic, and I've really gotten to this non-poetic sort of writing.

— Mike Gordon

When I was a young girl salmon fishing with my father in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in Washington State I used to…

— Tess Gallagher

I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that.

— Ellie Goulding

I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have.

— Alex Lemon

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'm not musically trained and I'm not all these other things. I'm creative with a keyboard and a drum machine, but I can't really…

— Doseone

The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may be a…

— Robert Bly

I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have. I try to give to…

— Alex Lemon

A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.

— Helen Vendler

In my own writing, I've mostly abandoned end-rhyme, but wordplay is still a huge part of my process. I've written a series of mermaid…

— Matthea Harvey