I think poems return us to that place of mud and dirt and earth, sun and rain. — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
The way a small child might dream of visiting Disneyland, I dreamed of writing books. Never did I think my poems would… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
I think poems belong as much in the news pages as the literary pages. A lot of people throw aside the literary… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I tell my students to think of poems as language plus, language with value added beyond its everyday use. — Monica Youn Copy Share Image
I think all poems are commissioned. They just come to me without somebody outside commissioning them. The idea comes and I will… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Maybe because I can't even put together an IKEA desk, I've never been tempted to think of my own poems as built… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
“I say I think my poems now are finer than anything I've ever done; I only hope that is the judgement of… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
In America they have to know just what you are-- novelist, poet, playwright... Well, I've been all of them... I think poems… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
As a university student, I tried hard to write poems in Korean. It was at that time that I foresaw my death… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
As a sick kid, I always looked out the window. The objects of my observation were the sun, the seasons, the wind,… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
If the motive of writing is for some people a kind of exercise in dirty laundry, that's one thing. I've always thought… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
“I do think that all of us think in poems. I think of a poem as being deeper than headline news. You… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“It's corny, but I think poems are echoes of the voices in your head and from your past. Your sisters, your father,… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
Keats's odes are among my favorite poems ever. As are Neruda's. So yes, I think my poems are odes, though I really… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“Robert Frost at Eighty" I think there are poems greater and stranger than any I have known. I would like to find… — Peter Boyle Copy Share Image
