Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
There isn't a grand plan at work in the progression of the books with respect to the line. I do want the… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“This poem is the poem I'm writing because we aren't speaking, and it is making my heart hurt so bad that sometimes… — Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz Copy Share Image
I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem, when I'm writing one. Having written one, then you fall away… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“There is a difference between a poem and a writing incrusted with a feel of Poetry to fall within range” — Mpho Leteng Copy Share Image
There's a fine line between writing the poem and the poem writing itself. You have to be there and not be there,… — David Meltzer Copy Share Image
