I really enjoy doing my poems. So that's it; I'm condemned…

I'm always doing poems from a place of not-knowing, a place of ignorance in a way.

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

Some of us have been thinking and talking too long without doing anything. Poems are perfect; picketing, sometimes, is better.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

I don't have an inflated opinion of how much artistic merit the poems I do have.

— Tim Key

“Under the starry sky, I count every dim space.”

— Ritu Negi

“All I need to do is place my pen against paper and your love writes for me.”

— Kamand Kojouri

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

— Philip Levine

“Without pain, poetry is not possible.”

— seerat

“Don’t pack out! To some people, you make life bright When you decide to dim your light Their lives will be full of darkness…

— Israelmore Ayivor

My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost.…

— Natasha Trethewey

A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so…

— Amber Tamblyn

“[poems are] crystals deposited after the effervescent contact of the spirit with reality. (cristaux deposes apres l'effervescent contact de l'esprit avec la realite)”

— Pierre Reverdy

“And that’s the terrible myth of organized society. That everything that’s done through the established system is legal. And that word has a powerful…

— William M. Kunstler

At the end of our lives, we go before one judge, and the crimes you committed and man allowed you to walk free is…

— Rashida Rowe

Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.

— Iris Chang

I think 'The Condemned' has a great story. It's a lot more than a mindless action flick.

— Stone Cold Steve Austin