Best Quote by Ben Okri

Instead of noting down things I’m unlikely to forget, I will write a poem. Even if I have never written one before and even…

— Paulo Coelho

A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it.

— Randall Jarrell

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

— William Hughes Mearns

Things that I have a hard time being able to fully grasp, sometimes writing the poem helps me work through it. Or I get…

— Sarah Kay

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

— Norman MacCaig

Poetry connects you to yourself, to the self that doesn't know how to talk or negotiate.

— Rita Dove

The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.

— Peter Davison

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

— Ed Westwick

I try to avoid calling myself a poet because I think that's something someone else has to call you. It's like bragging.

— Dorianne Laux

I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is…

— Leonard Cohen

“a poem is just a little machine for remembering itself”

— Kyle Simonsen

One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music, you didn't…

— Jane Hirshfield