Books Quote by Cate Marvin

I like poems that affect me emotionally and also provoke me to further, deeper thought. I enjoy challenge, but not, I think, for its…

— James Arthur

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

— Nell Freudenberger

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.

— Jeffery Deaver

“Poetry is simple when you write what you see and feel, searching for the words only makes it difficult”

— Rayvon L. Browne

I like the machinery of poems, especially when they have human warmth.

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry challenges you. Much of its importance is that it's one of the few places left in culture that makes things difficult-it asks you…

— Dan Beachy-Quick

I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have. I try to give to…

— Alex Lemon

I love poetry, but I find it so difficult to write well.

— Emily Susan Rapp

I like the way the prose and poetry interact.

— Rachel Zucker

It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us.

— Robert Hass

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

— Gwen Harwood

I like poems that inspire, that make us think and reflect. It's like putting love into the world for whoever picks it up.

— Peleg Top