Advice Quote by Camille Paglia

A poem should improve on the blank page.

— Nicanor Parra

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the…

— Wislawa Szymborska

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

— Robert Morgan

Writing a poem is making music with words and space.

— Arnold Adoff

I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.

— Carol Ann Duffy

There IS a difference between poetry and prose! Poems should be sonically charged and new to the ear.

— Cate Marvin

Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths.

— Carl Sandburg

It is not enough for poems to be fine; they must charm, and draw the mind of the listener at will.

— Horace

I need more and more silence, it feels. Poems don't leap into my mind when I'm distracted, turned outward, with other people, listening to…

— Jane Hirshfield

Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head.

— Christopher Logue

A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what…

— Matthea Harvey

My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.

— Jean Cocteau