Believe Quote by Anne Stevenson

I feel in poetry there aren't that many rules that you need to absolutely live by depending on your style of poetry.

— Masiela Lusha

I think that things are poetic when they don't have a boundary. Without rules. My life is poetic.

— Mark Gonzales

The rhyme always knows better than you, and leads you to places where you wouldn't otherwise have gotten to and that is absolutely the…

— Nicole Krauss

Part of writing is discovering the rules of the game and then deciding whether to follow the rules or to break them. The great…

— Billy Collins

I don't find any direct statements in life. My poetry imitates or reproduces the way knowledge or awareness come to me, which is by…

— John Ashbery

For me, poetry is always a search for order.

— Elizabeth Jennings

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

— Thomas Lynch

Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent…

— Sarah Kay

I didn't know that there were many rules in music when I first started writing.

— Tyler Joseph

I am a relatively rational being and I like to create order in poems. I like meter, I like rhyme, but ultimately I don't…

— Mary Jo Salter

I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.

— Edith Södergran

But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either…

— Andrew Motion