Helpful Quote by David Biespiel

It's difficult to put your own bare ass out on the limb every time you sit down to write a poem. But that's really…

— Sam Hamill

What writing a poem really does - and what figuring how to perform effectively really does - is forces people to listen to you.…

— Daveed Diggs

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.

— Edward Hirsch

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for…

— Edward Hirsch

I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which…

— Jesmyn Ward

One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music, you didn't…

— Jane Hirshfield

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

— T. S. Eliot

I personally believe the role of poets as poets (which is something different from our obligations as citizens, community members, humans) is to write…

— Matthew Zapruder

A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what…

— Matthea Harvey

After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end of being…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“To write or read a poem is . . . to enter into a different kind of thought world from our normal patterns. A…

— N.T. Wright

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages. ”

— Vanessa M. Chattman