Attention Quote by Arlo Parks

Poems mesmerized me, and I felt better when I was writing them, or trying to - more in touch with something deep and dark…

— Edward Hirsch

When I was younger, I was so crazy about poetry that I didn't notice who was noticing. It seemed to me so tremendous and…

— Robert Hass

I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over…

— John Updike

I was writing poems as I was walking. I was able to take that restlessness, that nomadic distraction, and use that distraction in the…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.

— Nicholson Baker

Sometimes poetry--words--give us a small, lovely look at ourselves. And sometimes that is enough.

— Patricia MacLachlan

Whenever I read a poem that moves me, I know I'm not alone in the world. I feel a connection to the person who…

— Gregory Orr

I used to do poetry and write stories and stuff - I never really had anybody standing over my shoulder, like, "What did you…

— Dreezy

When I feel something very intensely or deeply or personally, I can go to extremes of self-expression or self-analysis by writing a poem -…

— Jimmy Carter

A decade ago, my poems were precious little boxes, small and claustrophobic, completely inward gazing. I didn't possess the command to speak beyond the…

— Robin Beth Schaer

I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's when I…

— William Everson

The poems ... are moments when I had the intensity to see, and the energy to build, some careful analog that completed the seeing.…

— Samuel R. Delany