Apprehension Quote by Caroline Kennedy

“Children delight in poetry if they are not frightened away by adults' fear of poetry.”

— Mary Crow

And a lot of poetry is putting yourself back into the state of wonder that you have before things when you're a child. It's…

— Edward Hirsch

Young poets worry that their experiences - whether urban or rural, immigrant or native, small town, suburb, or big city - aren't worthy of…

— Allison Joseph

One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame of mind:…

— James Agee

Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for having expected…

— Tracy K. Smith

“Although I've written a few (a very few) poems over the years, I am not a natural poet...and I remain in awe of people…

— Terri Windling

Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun.

— Gwen Harwood

Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.

— Jack Prelutsky

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

— Sylvia Plath

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it…

— Mark Strand

Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.

— Louise Bogan

“The feeling for words comes at an early age--or rather it is lost in most cases at any early age, leaving the rest poets" (170).”

— Anonymous