Gestures Quote by Alison Hawthorne Deming

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

— Howard Nemerov

[To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading…

— Nikki Giovanni

I see poetry as a path toward new understanding and transformation, and so I've looked at specific poems I love, and at poetry's gestures…

— Jane Hirshfield

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

— Ed Westwick

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

— Cate Marvin

Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.

— Ama Ata Aidoo

Every poem, formal or free, has an ideal shape, and the job of the poet is to find it.

— Peter Meinke

A poem can use anything to talk about anything.

— Jane Hirshfield

Writing a poem is discovering.

— Robert Frost

I like the dance between sustained focus and digression that the long poem invites. A controlling metaphor helps to sustain the long poem.

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

“Poetry is about finding the best way to plagiarize the reader’s ideas, thoughts, emotions, feelings and memories, their past present or future states of…

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

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

— Vanessa M. Chattman