Believe Quote by Anne Sexton

It’s a good poem if I’m a different person when I’m finished reading it.

— Brandon Stanton

I have no precise idea of who makes up my readership. I'm surprised when I discover people have read my poems at all.

— Cate Marvin

Everyone is their own kind of poet - you can't miss it when their words are written down.

— Sheila Heti

I'm a poet, first and foremost as a writer. That's who I am. That's what I'm most comfortable writing.

— Dante Basco

To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance-- not in real life I hope. In real life try to be nice.…

— Richard Hugo

I think people know by now that I do my own writing.

— Mick Foley

I never think of my audience when I write a poem. I try to write out of whatever is haunting me; in order for…

— Rita Dove

Once considered an art form that called for talent, or at least a craft that called for practice, a poem now needs only sincerity.…

— Barbara Holland

I enjoy writing poetry more than seeing people in real life. To me most people are the same.

— Jeremy Limn

I try to write in a way that makes people feel things.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I keep feeling that there isn't one poem being written by any one of us - or a book or anything like that. The…

— Anne Sexton

I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

— Honore de Balzac