Be grateful Quote by Carol Ann Duffy

I don't want to write poems about the royal wedding. I would have to be moved by the event.

— Derek Walcott

A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.

— Erica Jong

I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.

— Natasha Trethewey

I think the biggest thing that I have to do is to remind people that poetry is there for us to turn to not…

— Natasha Trethewey

I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away by a…

— John Keats

I think happy, companionate marriages between men and women who respect each other (as far as is consistent with being actual human beings) should…

— Delia Sherman

Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart...

— John Berger

Now, I like a church service, but this was one of those write-your-own-vows sorts of things. Neither of them had ever picked up a…

— David Sedaris

Writing a poem ... is a kind of possible love affair between something like the heart (that courageous but also shy factory of emotion)…

— Mary Oliver

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Marriage is a sort of poetical see-saw.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I want the poem to be an experience - for both the listener and for myself.

— Anne Waldman