Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
Carl Sandburg
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
I'm looking for a guy who makes you want to dance and write poetry all day long.
Angela Sarafyan
I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. The novel receives streams of... →
Jose Saramago
It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry.
John Singer Sargent
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
Nathalie Sarraute