Goal Quote by Donald Hall

It's absolutely crucial to maintain my life as a poet.

— Edward Hirsch

Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.

— Anonymous

The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.

— Peter Davison

think what you hope for is that at different times of your life you're able to write the poetry that reflects the moment that…

— Edward Hirsch

My life's purpose is to write poetry - but behind the poetry must be the vision of a fresh revelation for men.

— William Soutar

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I've written poetry most of my life.

— Julia Michaels

My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Donald Hall

A good poem has its own life. It's like bringing a child into the world. You, the poet, birthed the child, but the child…

— David Whyte

I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

Maybe poetry's not so important, but ... it makes life worth living.

— Arda Collins