It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs…

“People Are like Icebergs, You only really see the tip of them.”

— Lucas Sterk

I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.

— Edith Södergran

Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.

— Alice Walker

The big icebergs that drift into warmer water melt much more rapidly under water than on the surface, and sometimes a sharp, low reef…

— Edward Smith

My earliest poems were a way of talking to somebody. I suppose to myself.

— Philip Levine

Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now.

— Richard Eberhart

For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.

— Robin Morgan

Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate…

— Richard Eberhart

“In this particular tub, two knees jut up like icebergs, while minute brown hairs rise on arms and legs in a fringe of kelp;…

— Sylvia Plath

“Thoughts always moved slowly through Brutha’s mind, like icebergs. They arrived slowly and left slowly and when they were there they occupied a lot…

— Terry Pratchett

We are like icebergs in the ocean: one-eighth part consciousness and the rest submerged beneath the surface of articulate apprehension.

— William Gerhardie

Like icebergs, people normally expose only a small part of themselves, and generally just the part they wish to show.

— Anonymous

Two days like icebergs bleak, blank, half-melting, all frigid, mainly out of sight, and definitely a threat to peace of mind drifted by and…

— Roger Zelazny

In this particular tub, two knees jut up like icebergs, while minute brown hairs rise on arms and legs in a fringe of kelp;…

— Sylvia Plath

“People are icebergs, with just a bit you can see and loads you can’t.”

— David Mitchell