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“(I also occasionally write poems, after first explaining carefully to the audience and myself that I am not a poet and this is not…

— T. Kingfisher

When you find it you become the secret addressee of a literary text and I felt that their reader had been left out of…

— Edward Hirsch

A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession.

— Jorie Graham

Writing a poem is unwriting a knot, like untying a shoelace that is clubbing your foot.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I am interested in the confines of the page and busting through/off the page as well. A writer must let go of the line…

— Denise Duhamel

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

— Antonin Artaud

I don't believe that poetry is in danger because nobody wants to read it or appreciate it. There is a tremendous audience for it…

— Derek Walcott

In a poem, the words happen; they just come. I let them. Otherwise, I wouldn't write. To interfere with what is happening is to…

— Louis Dudek

I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of.

— Robert Frost

Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.

— John Updike

Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.

— Sylvia Plath

No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading…

— Muriel Rukeyser