Listmania!
but, I can't write Poetry, Katharena!
By an Amazon.com customer
The Everything Writing Poetry Book: A Practical Guide To Style, Structure, Form, And Expression (Everything: Language and Literature)The Everything Writing Poetry Book: A Practical Guide To Style, Structure, Form, And Expression (Everything: Language and Literature) by Tina D. Eliopulos
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $2.77
What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed? --W.H. Auden
The Discovery of Poetry: A Field Guide to Reading and Writing PoemsThe Discovery of Poetry: A Field Guide to Reading and Writing Poems by Frances Mayes
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.69
The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed. --W.B. Yeats
Painless Writing (Barron's Painless Series)Painless Writing (Barron's Painless Series) by Jeffrey Strausser
Buy used from: $0.01
Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science. --Sigmund Freud
The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning PoetsThe Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets by Ted Kooser
Buy new: $15.56 / Used from: $3.54
Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing PoetryThe Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry by Kim Addonizio
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $4.43
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
Painless PoetryPainless Poetry by Mary Elizabeth
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $0.58
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. --Edgar Allan Poe
Practical Poetry: A Nonstandard Approach to Meeting Content-Area StandardsPractical Poetry: A Nonstandard Approach to Meeting Content-Area Standards by Sara Holbrook
Buy new: $26.56 / Used from: $17.57
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. --Salvatore Quasimodo
The Power of Poems: Teaching the Joy of Writing PoetryThe Power of Poems: Teaching the Joy of Writing Poetry by Margriet Ruurs
Buy new: $11.66 / Used from: $7.00
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out.... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. --A.E. Housman
The Self-Publishing Manual: How to Write, Print, and Sell Your Own Book, 14th EditionThe Self-Publishing Manual: How to Write, Print, and Sell Your Own Book, 14th Edition by Dan Poynter
Buy used from: $3.74
To have great poets there must be great audiences too. --Walt Whitman
Writing Nonfiction, 4th Edition: Turning Thoughts into BooksWriting Nonfiction, 4th Edition: Turning Thoughts into Books by Dan Poynter
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $10.00
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. --Thomas Hardy
Writing and Selling Poetry, Fiction, Articles, Plays, and Local HistoryWriting and Selling Poetry, Fiction, Articles, Plays, and Local History by Marcia Muth
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $3.48
Who can tell the dancer from the dance? --William Butler Yeats
Poetry for DummiesPoetry for Dummies by The Poetry Center
Buy new: $10.34 / Used from: $5.43
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself. --Carl Sandburg
Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing PoetryComplete Idiot's Guide to Writing Poetry by Nikki Moustaki
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $4.47
Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did. --Christopher Morley