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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
— Tao Lin
I don't think anybody reads a book of poetry front to back. Editors and reviewers only. I don't think anybody else does.
— Billy Collins
I have more wisdom than any books ever written in history of times, any scripture ever written which you rhyme but this is not my purpose.
— Santosh Kalwar
I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's when I became a poet.
— William Everson
I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.
— Bobby McFerrin
He said that he felt that there was a book hidden between us. Some small thing lodged between a rib or a summer. and He wanted to find it.
— Mikl Paul
We are metered only by our own machines,
while the book is a clock that forgets her machanics. — Amy King
while the book is a clock that forgets her machanics. — Amy King
I have these knives in my chest that can't become words.
— Jenim Dibie
I didn't write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.
— Cynthia Voigt
As I published books, I realized, that's not really what I want. I don't care about the books as much anymore. I just want to write poetry.
— Victoria Chang
I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.
— Nell Freudenberger
The counsellor who never reads a novel or never opens a book of poetry is neglecting an important resource for empathic development.
— Dave Mearns
Actually, I'm working on a book of poetry.
— Marv Levy
As long as music survives, poetry will never die.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Nobody reads poetry anymore
So who the hell are you
I see bent over this book? — Aleksandar Ristovic
So who the hell are you
I see bent over this book? — Aleksandar Ristovic
Think of what starlight
And lamplight would lack
Diamonds and fireflies
If they couldn't lean against Black ... — Mary O'Neill
And lamplight would lack
Diamonds and fireflies
If they couldn't lean against Black ... — Mary O'Neill
All of those who ask for, request or demand a title of this book will be asked to return it immediately.
— Theodore Ficklestein
All in tune with love and the slow world moving from the poem - STAY from the book - RidingTheEscalator
— Jay Woodman
Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books!
— Stephen Vincent Benet
Less doth yearning trouble him who knoweth many songs, or with his hands can touch the harp: his possession is his gift of glee which God gave him.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
I'm an open book in a closed room.
— Christina Strigas
I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class that Pearl London gave.
— Edward Hirsch
The hell in your soul will always find heaven in mine.
— Jenim Dibie
Theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair
— Federico Garcia Lorca
If I stay close to the sea, I will go on well.
— Charlotte Eriksson
My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've written poems as well, a slim volume of poetry.
— Kate Thompson
My life was a blank paper, until you came to rhyme with words & make it a poetry book.
— Akansh Malik
I am not a broken heart,
and I am not your fault. — Charlotte Eriksson
and I am not your fault. — Charlotte Eriksson
If i write a book it will probably be a book about how not to use the internet or a book of poetry.
— Misha Collins
Tickle my heart with your pen. Write me for all to read. Bind our love inside a book. Make me your poetry.
— N'Zuri Za Austin
I give this book 5 Stars and highly recommend it to all fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writers, aspiring writers, bloggers or journalists.
— Sunny
Marriage is a book in which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
— Beverley Nichols
The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poetry, romance, beauty, and love have no book value, but life has no value without them.
— Debasish Mridha
I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book.
— Kenneth Rexroth
I chase the wind and get lost in the clouds. I'm sweep into darkness in my search for the light.
— Sherman Kennon
As I read you I fell in love with the holes between your words and I loved you most on the days you could not love yourself.
— Jenim Dibie
I really love poetry. I'm a big E.E. Cummings fan and a big Walt Whitman fan, and I have a big book of poetry.
— Mae Whitman
She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section.
— Joyce Rachelle
Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
— Robert Frost
I sent my words out onto the wind
to paths unseen and parts unknown
in hopes people will enjoy
this book of poetic words I've sown — Charles Johnson
to paths unseen and parts unknown
in hopes people will enjoy
this book of poetic words I've sown — Charles Johnson
I have a book of poetry I believe many should read but in each verse you'll discover it wasn't written for greed.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Every heart must have
its private
bestseller book. — Sanober Khan
its private
bestseller book. — Sanober Khan
The thing I've learned writing my book is that everyone has the potential to be a poet, and all of our lives are epic.
— Jonathan Heatt
Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
— Don Marquis
Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely.
— David McCullough
Education does not define you as a "HUMAN BEING" your actions does.
— Henry Johnson Jr
You see.. I have this book. Within the pages of this book are things that I should've told you. I call this book "Hesitation".
— Andrew King
Before she knew it, she was just another set of eyes in a dusty attic, waiting for the stairs to creak.
— Kelly Moran
I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in. I remember reading a Robert Bly book of poetry.
— Sally Mann
A Book of Poetry for Teenagers
— RyAnn Hall
The rhyme pad was a spell book - it summoned asphalt elementals, elder gods, and weeping ancestors, all of whom had your back.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
They come here wanting to be loved, and the boys on the stage receive them from the poem - STAY in the Book - RidingTheEscalator
— Jay Woodman
He took my hand, and pulled me into his living room where a book was open on his sofa. It was poetry, of course, because he was perfect.
— Cora Carmack
I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.
— Martin Cruz Smith
I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.
— Chang-rae Lee
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
— Emily Dickinson
I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry,'
— Jewel
Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.
— Simon Armitage
Cat's waiting is a kind of love.
— Jie Zhang
Mega biblion, mega kakon (Big book, big evil)
— Callimachus
I'm Reginald Clark, I'm afraid of the dark
So please do not close this book on me. — Shel Silverstein
So please do not close this book on me. — Shel Silverstein
In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.
— Confucius
Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.
Aristotle — Bruce Wayne Sullivan
Aristotle — Bruce Wayne Sullivan
Life is the courier of the universal brilliance. Elysse
— Elysse Poetis
A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is
To meet an antique book,
In just the dress his century wore;
A privilege, I think. — Emily Dickinson
To meet an antique book,
In just the dress his century wore;
A privilege, I think. — Emily Dickinson