Different Quote by Billy Collins

Poets have a sense of place. My place was London, and I sang about it.

— Donovan

Poetry is my cheap means of transportation, by the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he…

— Billy Collins

“If I knew where poems came from, I'd go there.”

— Michael Langley

Place is extremely important to my work because I am always pulling landscape imagery into my poems.

— Cate Marvin

I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The…

— Robert Frost

My poems were just kind of all over the place. They had no focus, no location, nothing. Kind of a series of images that…

— James Welch

I'm always doing poems from a place of not-knowing, a place of ignorance in a way.

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

— Horace

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.

— Edward Hirsch

“Poetry excites innate emotions and perceptions that let you create a new world where you have never visited and no one else can enter.”

— Debasish Mridha

“These days many poets live in cities, or at least in suburbs, and the natural world grows ever more distant from our everyday lives.…

— Mary Oliver

If the poem is so moving that even if you have no experience in that particular setting be it 1920's Harlem let's say. You…

— Rita Dove