“It was not the Jew, of course, who invented the love poem, but the other way around.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
At the very beginning when I begin writing a poem I try not to think of the audience or anyone at all… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
For me a true poem is on the way when I begin to be haunted, when it seems as if I were… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
It takes something of a poet to apprehend and get into the depth, the lusciousness, the spiritual life of a great poem.… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem… — Charles Olson Copy Share Image
“Bishop on "A Miracle for Breakfast" and Sestina Technique It seems to me that there are two ways possible for a sestina.… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
“A Poem: You, with your way of innocence, would have been hurt; thinking I run from you; that I despise you, but… — Brie Edison Copy Share Image
