Different Quote by Brandon Stanton

A poem is good until one knows by whom it is.

— Karl Kraus

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

— Shane McCrae

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

— Sheila Heti

I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine.

— Carol Ann Duffy

I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.

— Nell Freudenberger

“A poem isn't a good poem, until you need it.”

— J. David Gray

As soon as I start to write I'm very aware, I'm trying to be aware that a reader just might well pick up this…

— Billy Collins

The poetry is myself.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never…

— Benjamin Alire Saenz

You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.

— Robert Bly

The subject of the poem usually dictates the rhythm or the rhyme and its form. Sometimes, when you finish the poem and you think…

— Maya Angelou

A great poem leaves so much room for everybody to have such a different reaction to it.

— Spike Jonze