Poetry Quotes of the Day

"Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.”

- Ani Difranco

“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

“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.”

- Kahlil Gibran

“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”

- T.S. Eliot

"There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson