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  • Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

    " 'Hope' is the thing with feathers" l. 1 (ca. 1862) SeeWoody Allen 20
  • Do not go gentle into that good night.

    "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" l. 16 (1952)
  • The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may be a place as easily overlooked as a bee's wing

    Robert Bly (1986). “Selected poems”, Harper Perennial
  • For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything.

    Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes”, p.65, University of Missouri Press
  • I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • I don't think I'd ever get any better as a poet if I didn't push myself, very deliberately, to grow. My best poems surprise me, as they should, but I fight them at every turn, possibly just because I'm stubborn.

    "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.
  • But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

    "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)
  • Natalie Lyalin is writing some of the best poems in the world. There is an evil in her gorgeous poem-hearts. She must have sold her heart to the devil to write like this—so beautiful, so funny and so strange. Her images stack and stack down the page without spilling, each line such a bombshell you'll start reading backward to the first line. These poems are like babies—they will pop out of trees.

  • Human bodies are words, myriads of words, (In the best poems re-appears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay, Every part able, active, receptive, without shame or the need of shame.)

    Gay   Men   Body  
    Walt Whitman (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.65, Courier Corporation
  • I know why the caged bird sings.

    Title of book (1969), taken from the last line of "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar in Lyrics of Hearthside (1899). Cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 567:10
  • The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident.

    Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (1992). “On the Air with Dylan Thomas: The Broadcasts”, p.60, New Directions Publishing
  • People can put their best poems straight onto the web.

  • The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...

    Tattoo   Running   Taken  
    "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)
  • A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is in the design, not the material it is expressed in, and the best designs, like the best poems, make ordinary material significant by its arrangement.

    Nan Fairbrother (1974). “The nature of landscape design: as an art form, a craft, a social necessity”, Alfred A. Knopf
  • Poetry: the best words in the best order.

    Table Talk 12 July 1827 (1835)
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