Poetry Quote by Alfred B. Douglas

The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long…

— Robert Frost

Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.

— Ama Ata Aidoo

“Tomorrow I shall write something beautiful, something so serene that storms will rise suddenly and protest with ferocious screams. I shall write poems for…

— Tonny K. Brown

“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.”

— W.H. Auden

“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence. It forms the quality of light from which we predicate our…

— Audre Lorde

Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to…

— Maya Angelou

“A poem is a heroic act of integration that binds into rough harmony the chorus of forces within and outside the soul. A poem…

— Tony Hoagland

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of messages.”

— Vanessa M. Chattman

A poem gives me a chance to have an encounter with a feeling, with an experience, with a wish, with an idea.

— Tracy K. Smith

Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.

— Paul Muldoon

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

— Robert Penn Warren

Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way,…

— C. K. Williams