Ideas Quote by Denise Duhamel

I have no precise idea of who makes up my readership. I'm surprised when I discover people have read my poems at all.

— Cate Marvin

I wrote poetry for seven or eight years, maybe longer, before I could say I was a poet. If people asked, I'd say I…

— Stephen Dunn

I wanted to write the kind of poetry that people read and remembered, that they lived by - the kinds of lines that I…

— Tracy K. Smith

I write from the various experiences I live. Not every poem comes from my personal experience, though. It could be something that a friend…

— Rupi Kaur

My earliest poems were a way of talking to somebody. I suppose to myself.

— Philip Levine

I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about my poems

— Philip Larkin

There's always some reason not to be writing and I regret the times I give in to that, because then writing feels strange -…

— Joan Larkin

I wrote poetry from the time I could write. That was the only way I could begin to express who I was but the…

— Francesca Lia Block

I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

— Jeffery Deaver

As soon as I start to write I'm very aware, I'm trying to be aware that a reader just might well pick up this…

— Billy Collins

When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me — yet — the many,…

— Margaret Atwood

“There’s only the writing, which I admit to knowing very little about. But then it’s probably best not to know. It allows one to…

— Russell Edson