Balls Quote by Conrad Aiken

Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.

— Philip Levine

A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?

— William Wordsworth

I'd like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It's been my private discipline.

— Alice Sebold

“Have you ever wondered What happens to all the poems people write? The poems they never let anyone else read? Perhaps they are Too…

— Shaun Tan

I don't want to bury anything in poetry.

— Sharon Van Etten

If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I hadn't lived…

— Andrew Motion

For me poems are acts re-done, and that can vibrate well into the future.

— Anne Waldman

If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my childhood to…

— Hermann Hesse

I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if…

— Anonymous

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

— Tom Wesselmann

I love poetry and I've kept everything I've written.

— Neil Warnock