I've been writing poetry seriously since about 2008, 2009.

There's a level at which, if you take poetry seriously, the focus it involves... that never goes away.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a…

— Edward Hirsch

“In the land of poetry commentary, you will encounter those who take poetry too lightly, and those who take poetry too seriously. The former…

— Jasper Sole

On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in…

— Hu Shih

I've always just liked writing poetry, but it's much later that I've discovered that there's this whole poetry world out there, that you almost…

— Victoria Chang

The question does arise if how and why to write poetry in this time. It feels both completely essential and also quite difficult. But…

— Matthew Zapruder

“…she made a poem on it at once, the lines singing themselves through her consciousness without effort. With one side of her nature she…

— L.M. Montgomery

I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to…

— Erica Jong

“Whatand why were never questions for me. How was the only question. When I look back now, I realize that I never thought about…

— Sadhguru

The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn,…

— Keith Miller

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

— Robert Morgan

“Those who would like to become writers attend courses on writing poetry and prose and analyze their own work and that of other writers…

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Let the trees be consulted before you take any action every time you breathe in thank a tree let tree roots crack parking lots…

— John Wright

I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've…

— Edward Hirsch

I don't want to write poems that are just really clear about how I'm aware of all the traps involved in writing poetry; I…

— Ben Lerner