Poetry Quote by Benjamin Alire Saenz

My poems mean what people take them to mean.

— Paul Valery

Everyone is their own kind of poet - you can't miss it when their words are written down.

— Sheila Heti

I thought poems were songs for people with bad voices.

— Lorna Dee Cervantes

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought…

— James Broughton

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

— Edmund Wilson

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

— Thomas Lynch

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 think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say…

— James Laughlin

People used to say poems were different to songs but I don't think they are.

— Tinie Tempah

I'm always glad that other people are way smarter about my poems than I am.

— Shane McCrae

the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.

— Anonymous

With lyrics, being a poet gave me a different approach than other people.

— Jamila Woods