Address Quote by Dana Goodyear

Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad…

— Vikram Seth

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

— Sylvia Plath

I like it when poems are challenging, when they concern matters important and personal to the author.

— Cate Marvin

When you find it you become the secret addressee of a literary text and I felt that their reader had been left out of…

— Edward Hirsch

A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.

— Douglas Dunn

Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.

— Anonymous

For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)-they are experiences.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Poetry, for me, conveys the essence of narrative rather than its particulars.

— Delia Sherman

I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave.

— Dylan Thomas

In my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.…

— Anonymous

Poetry can magnify experience.

— May Swenson

Poetry, above all is a series of intense moments its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.

— Carol Ann Duffy