Home Quote by Donald Hall

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

— Thomas Lynch

Early poems are a thing it takes years to live down.

— Angela Thirkell

Let your poem be kept nine years.

— Horace

Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.

— Anonymous

Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.

— Seamus Heaney

I was fortunate enough to get a job at my alma mater, which brought me back to Indiana after being gone for twenty years.…

— Adrian Matejka

I never try to force poems into a collection simply because they were written/published within a certain period of time. They will eventually find…

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

“Poetry is not something you have to retire from”

— John Cooper Clarke

“Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many…

— Oscar Wilde

“Writing poems is simply an excuse to remember You.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“if you've lived this long, it's because you've squashed any poetry you had in you.”

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

I keep all my poems in my journals and lock them away. They are the start of everything.

— Stevie Nicks