Poems are other people's snapshots in which we see our own…

“Who will read these poems when the people are gone?”

— Dominic Owen Mallary

If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I hadn't lived…

— Andrew Motion

When I first became brave enough to tell people that I wrote poems, so many people would rave to me about Edna St. Vincent…

— Tracy K. Smith

“People were made of nothing so much as dust, and I couldn't see that doctoring all that dust was a bit better than writing…

— Sylvia Plath

Poems, to me, do not come from ideas, they come from a series of images that you tuck away in the back of your…

— Carolyn Kizer

For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)-they are experiences.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Do you know what a poem is, Esther?' No, what?' I would say. A piece of dust.' Then, just as he was smiling and…

— Sylvia Plath

“Writing the poems, I came to think that regarding is a form of love, but the regarding is not necessarily accurate. In the poems,…

— Joy Katz

If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I had written some poems that people are not going to…

— Peter Davison

At times of crisis or distress, it's poems that people turn to. (Poetry) still has a power to speak to people's feelings, maybe in…

— Blake Morrison

“Now, lying on my back in bed, I imagined Buddy saying, ‘Do you know what a poem is, Esther?’ ‘No, what?’ I would say.…

— Sylvia Plath

“Have you ever wondered What happens to all the poems people write? The poems they never let anyone else read? Perhaps they are Too…

— Shaun Tan

“She conquered her demons and wore her scars like wings. ”

— Atticus Poetry

“It was her chaos that made her beautiful. ”

— Atticus Poetry

“Without pain, poetry is not possible.”

— seerat