Book Quote by Dorianne Laux

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

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who…

— Andrew Motion

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

Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my…

— Erica Jong

I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the…

— Helen Dunmore

I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you…

— Anonymous

I love being part of poetry conversations. I love talking about what I've read.

— Victoria Chang

I love poetry and I've kept everything I've written.

— Neil Warnock

Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all…

— Claire Tomalin

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

— Edward Hirsch

I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.

— May Sarton

I've written poetry most of my life.

— Julia Michaels