About Quote by Dana Goodyear

I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.

— Carol Ann Duffy

Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear.

— Thomas Lynch

I don't know where the shape of a poem comes from. I certainly don't impose it. I write out of a jumble of emotions…

— Michael Longley

Sometimes I am puzzling over something for months and months and the poem gets created in small bursts and rewritten a hundred times, and…

— Sarah Kay

The 'idea' for the poem, which may come as an image thrown against memory, as a sound of words that sets off a traveling…

— Muriel Rukeyser

The shape that poems make in the mind is an echo of something powerful in the cosmos. I do believe that, and that is…

— Campbell McGrath

A poem is but a thought, a mere memory caught at play. From hand onto paper, bleeding thoughts emerge.

— Robert M. Hensel

What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.

— Sherman Alexie

“Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something

— Rita Dove

So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins…

— Tracy K. Smith

I think poetry involves heightened noticing or imagining as well as creating a certain made shape. On the other hand, that shape can be…

— Matthea Harvey