Poetry Quote by Allen Tate

The question of sort of music and history, I think, are so important to understanding the poem as an idea but also us as…

— Kevin Young

Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know…

— Pablo Neruda

I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason…

— A. R. Ammons

The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the very social…

— Ron Silliman

I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a…

— James Dickey

“Poetry is the coronation of literature, and a majestic form of writing.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of…

— Carol Ann Duffy

I don't know where a poem comes from until after I've lived with it a long time. I've a notion that a poem comes…

— Donald Hall

“Poetry is the song of the heart, dance of the mind, and the outer expression of the inner beauty of the soul.”

— Debasish Mridha

A poem is an invocation, rebellious return to the blessedness of beginning again, wandering free in pure process of forgetting and finding.

— Susan Howe

“Since when," he asked, "Are the first line and last line of any poem Where the poem begins and ends?”

— Seamus Heaney

How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists…

— Allen Tate