Happened Quote by Donald Hall

I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual…

— Eavan Boland

How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists…

— Allen Tate

Poems, to me, do not come from ideas, they come from a series of images that you tuck away in the back of your…

— Carolyn Kizer

I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason…

— A. R. Ammons

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

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

— Donald Hall

All poetry comes from repetition.

— Kenneth Koch

To me, poetry is a recreation, a renewal of language... The subtlety of what words mean and the fact that you write something and…

— Mary Ann Hoberman

I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.

— Natasha Trethewey

To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.

— Gregory Orr

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

— Anonymous

It may be that poetry makes life's nebulous events tangible to me and restores their detail; or conversely, that poetry brings forth the intangible…

— Frank O'Hara