Complexity Quote by Alex Lemon

I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have.

— Alex Lemon

Poems can't help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record of my…

— Matthea Harvey

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

— Thomas Lynch

I like it when poems are challenging, when they concern matters important and personal to the author.

— Cate Marvin

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

— Ed Westwick

I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if…

— Anonymous

Durable, memorable poetry is usually alert to complexity. A really good poem gives you a reason to read it 20 times, because the language…

— Stephen Burt

Good poems ask us to have complex minds and hearts. Even simple-of-surface poems want that. Perhaps those are the ones that want it most…

— Jane Hirshfield

I don't spend time thinking about an aesthetic out of which I create or an ideal toward which my body of work is heading.…

— Albert Goldbarth

I like poems that inspire, that make us think and reflect. It's like putting love into the world for whoever picks it up.

— Peleg Top

I only submit the poems I think are the strongest.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

A lot of poems are boring and impenetrable. Mine are not. They're really simple.

— Tim Key