Poetry Is Quotes

Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy.

The essence of poetry is will and passion.

Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.

I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the hard work of writing fiction.

I have licked the fire and danced in the ashes of every bridge I ever burned. I fear no hell from you.

I kept you so well, buried beneath the darkest shame and stilled with filthy lies. Perhaps I should have dug deeper.

Poetry is an art that uses words to paint vivid pictures of perceptions and emotions.