Life Quote by Ama Ata Aidoo

What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.

— Sherman Alexie

I think what life experience has brought to my poems is compassion. When you work hard to make a living, raise a child up…

— Dorianne Laux

I share my life experiences as a poet with my students. My poetic difficulties, joys, struggles and discoveries. If I read a new poem…

— Dorianne Laux

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 wrote home to say how lovely everything was, and I used flourishing words and phrases, as if I were living life in a…

— Jamaica Kincaid

Ever since I was little, I’ve loved making hand-made cards and presents and arts & crafts for people. The book gives me a similar…

— Sarah Kay

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I write from the various experiences I live. Not every poem comes from my personal experience, though. It could be something that a friend…

— Rupi Kaur

My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.

— Edith Sitwell

I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.

— Felix Dennis

One of the best gifts you can give a poet is to present them with field guides - to rocks, to stars, to birds,…

— Marge Piercy

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