Humans Quote by Anonymous

I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never…

— Benjamin Alire Saenz

My poems mean what people take them to mean.

— Paul Valery

“A poem isn't selfish. It speaks to people.”

— Wallace Stegner

There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close…

— Anne Carson

I want to welcome folks to poetry, especially those who may have previously felt unwelcome; I want to celebrate everyone who is trying to…

— Sarah Kay

“Considering the ways in which so many of us waste our time, what would be wrong with a world in which everybody were writing…

— Ted Kooser

“A poet is for poetry Not for you and me.”

— Rahman Mostafiz

“Every poet will forever try to write the greatest poem ever written, I have found that this kind of poem can be written with…

— Michael Jones

Each of us as poets, as decent suffering human beings, has to find a way to run our lives that is compassionate toward one…

— Sam Hamill

“My poem must expurgate my manhood unveil the animality of the best of my being, reveal both the monster behind the friendly smile and…

— Eddy Toussaint

Though we do not have many poets, we certainly have more than we deserve, for we deserve none at all. It is ourselves that…

— Elizabeth Janeway

Your poems are like God's birds; they fly into people's hearts.

— Maia Wojciechowska