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- When you're really caught up in writing a poem, it can be a form of prayer. I'm not very good at praying,… — Denise Levertov
- Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes. — C.S. Lewis
- I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand. — May Sarton
- Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome. — Adrienne Rich
- Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
- Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in… — C. K. Williams
- Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense.… — Dan Quisenberry
- Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world. — Robert Frost
- Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pain and hurt of… — Jimmy Santiago Baca
- Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won’t. — Dorianne Laux
- Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries,… — Utah Phillips
- There are two versions to every poem – the crying version and the straight version — Galway Kinnell