“Writing is what I steal from the usual flow of things, from all the noise and interruptions and the constant rendering unto Caesar that seems to take up more and more of everyone’s time and energy.”— John Burnside, theguardian.com
“Poetry is truth, and great poetry is raw, and real, and messy, and glorious, and ugly.”— Lisa McGee, Ms. De Brún, Judith Roddy, imdb.com
“The new army of Insta-poets offers short, crisp, yet meaningful lines that the youth can relate to—but most importantly, appreciate it in real time. These lines satiate our thirst for something meaningful that our otherwise fast-paced, shallow lives lack...”— Gariyashi Bhuyan, idiva.com
“What’s more, is Tinder causing us to skip that vital step where we gauge compatibility in a partner? If we’re all performing, how do we know if the person on the other side is right for us?”— Cooper Fleishman, melmagazine.com
“Sabrina: Can you distract a room full of poets? Hilda: Easy. Salem: With your clothes on? Hilda: Oh.”— Dan Berendsen, Hilda Spellman, Caroline Rhea, imdb.com
“The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains—mountain-dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's wo…”— John Muir, amazon.com
“To the heart in you, don’t be afraid to feel. To the sun in you, don’t be afraid to shine. To the love in you, don’t be afraid to heal. To the ocean in you, don’t be afraid to rage. To the silence in you, don’t be afraid to break.”— Najwa Zebian, purplebuddhaquotes.com
“When Warsan Shire writes, she does precisely that; she opens a wound and as an emotional cartographer, maps the terrain of her trauma and sutures the wound through her poetry. Fearless and vulnerable, she pulls back layers to expose not only the pain, but the healing as well.”— Kameelah Janan Rasheed, wellandoftenpress.com
“I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war. I will close by say…”— Abraham Lincoln, rogerjnorton.com
“Kaur is, in industry parlance, a hack. And while most of us who write for a living believe ourselves to be hacks, at least most of us don’t run around saying the ultimate goal of our work is to be blown up to poster size.”— Lindsey Adler, theconcourse.deadspin.com
“I suppose an aesthetics-first approach to poetry is the perfect strategy for an aesthetics-first platform.”— Lindsey Adler, theconcourse.deadspin.com
“Yes, it is wonderful to be alive! Indeed, the Bottle inwardly sang of all this, as do young poets, who frequently also know nothing about the things of which they sing.”— Hans Christian Andersen, amazon.com
“Poetry springs from something deeper; it’s beyond intelligence. It may not even be linked with wisdom. It’s a thing of its own; it has a nature of its own. Undefinable.”— Jorge Luis Borges, theparisreview.org
“There are poets who sing you to sleep and poets who ready you for war and I want to be both.”— Ashe Vernon, goodreads.com
“We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our evolution is perhaps nothing but an expression of poetry that was lost.”— Gaston Bachelard, amazon.com
“We all dream profusely every night, yet by morning we’ve forgotten ninety percent of what went on. That’s why poets are such important members of society. Poets remember our dreams for us.”— Tom Robbins, amazon.com
“there are poets who sing you to sleep and poets who ready you for war and i want to be both.”— Ashe Vernon, latenightcornerstore.com
“It's true: pain and suffering helps to create what we call art. given the choice I'd never choose this damned pain and suffering for myself but somehow it finds me as the royalties continue to roll on in.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“Is it my job, as a woman, to encourage you to treat me like a person?”— Trista Mateer, thoughtcatalog.com