Autonomous Quote by Alice Walker

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

— Ed Westwick

You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch with to…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the…

— Jane Hirshfield

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem,…

— Sakyong Mipham

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

— Norman MacCaig

You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a…

— Phyllis Gotlieb

I'm really into poetry.

— Grace Potter

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

— William Hughes Mearns

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

— Joseph Joubert

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

— C.D. Wright

I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it,…

— Stella Benson