"Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo." ― Don Marquis Topic(s): Poetry More From Don Marquis "I would rather start a family than finish one." "Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind." "Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough." More In Poetry "I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn’t seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago."― James Laughlin "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things."― T. S. Eliot "Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground."― Diane Wakoski