I've always thought my poems told stories.

“...we could think or feel as we wished toward the characters, or as the poet, discounting history, invited us to; we were the poet's…

— Janet Frame

[Kenneth Koch] taught children in public schools in New York City to write poems and told them down worry about rhyming, don't worry about…

— Jim Jarmusch

I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a poem that…

— Seamus Heaney

I thought poems were songs for people with bad voices.

— Lorna Dee Cervantes

“all the pretty woman thought the poems i wrote on love were meant for them. and i always felt badly about having written them…

— Orhan Veli Kanık

I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself.

— Seamus Heaney

During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by writers in…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

I suppose I have written novels to find out what I thought about something and poems to find out what I felt about something.

— May Sarton

If the motive of writing is for some people a kind of exercise in dirty laundry, that's one thing. I've always thought of my…

— Stephen Dunn

My mother told me stories all the time... And in all of those stories she told me who I was, who I was supposed…

— Paula Gunn Allen

All the stories of the Bible that I know came to me first from my grandfather's lips... He would see stories in everything. He…

— Philip Pullman

“David could tell, by looking at her face as she read, whether or not the story contained in the book was living inside her,…

— John Connolly

After I’d told her – the mall, the taxi, Cross stroking my hair – she said, ‘Did he kiss you?’ ‘John and Martin totally…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“Her silent singing wrapped around the story she was telling herself, which she extended further every night on the deck. (Averill often told herself…

— Alice Munro

Some have said I focus on marginalized communities, but it's not like that was my mission statement. I've just told stories that interest me,…

— Sean Baker