Arriving Quote by Amy Lowell

I really enjoy doing my poems. So that's it; I'm condemned in some way to be a poet.

— Tim Key

I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry. ... I still do feel that a poet has a duty to…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

— Thomas Lynch

I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in the nature…

— Andrew Motion

Poems are a dance of language that comes out when my body taps into the rhythm of language. Rhythm gets us naked and exposes…

— Kim Hyesoon

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

— Sylvia Plath

Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun.

— Gwen Harwood

I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.

— Martin Gore

I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.

— Maxine Kumin

I'm ashamed to admit that I very seldom read poetry, even though many of my friends are poets.

— Celeste Ng

A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it.

— Randall Jarrell

Sometimes you have to be less ashamed about writing a bad poem than you would be about being silent.

— Robert Hass