Different Quote by Amber Tamblyn

Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of…

— Bayard Taylor

The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.

— Marguerite Young

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

The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.

— Jorge Luis Borges

I wanted to write the kind of poetry that people read and remembered, that they lived by - the kinds of lines that I…

— Tracy K. Smith

And what I've found over time is that for me to write a poem that I think is worthy that I can live with,…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry for me has been a long pilgrimage, a journey and a growing relationship with the unknown.

— David Whyte

I want the poem to be an experience - for both the listener and for myself.

— Anne Waldman

I have to interweave my poetry with purpose. For me, that purpose is to help people, and to shed a light on issues that…

— Amanda Gorman

I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

— Lewis Carroll

The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not…

— Edward Hirsch

I first got caught up in this marvelous feeling of being spoken to in that very direct, private, magical way by a poem when…

— Tracy K. Smith