Quote Quote from “Attributed” I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests. Pablo Neruda
Quote Quote from “1916 Letter To Louis Untermeyer” A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. Robert Frost
Quote Quote from “Letter To Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1870)” If I read a book [and] it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way? Emily Dickinson
Quote Quote from “Personal Letter (1872)” A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. Emily Dickinson
Poetry Quote Quote from “Circle Of Life” familyfriendpoems.com/poem/24894 Poetry is my refuge, my sacred thing, something no one can take away from me. Carly Nasch
Quote You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Quote Quote from “Tentative (First Model) Definitions Of Poetry In Complete Poems (1950)” Poetry is an echo asking a shadow dancer to be a partner Carl Sandburg