Beats Quote by Dylan Thomas

I listen to hundreds of those hymns sung repeatedly over the years of my life. And I know that they probably influenced a rhyme…

— Dwight Yoakam

I don't remember the first poem that I wrote because I've been creating poems since I was around 2 or 3. I don't have…

— Sarah Kay

“The Throes of Poetry - Hymns formed from groans of acquaintance, its rhythm weaving between tranquility, compassions, and peril - like bare feet stomping…

— Traci Lea LaRussa

I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where the poems…

— Betsy Lerner

the rest of my days I spend wandering: wondering what, anyway, was that sticky infusion, that rank flavor of blood, that poetry, by which…

— Galway Kinnell

There's the brilliant audacity of youth that poets strike upon in their earliest work sometimes that they never can hit upon again.

— Edward Hirsch

I found the poems in the fields And only wrote them down

— John Clare

I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn't come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked off…

— Lucille Clifton

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

— Allen Tate

There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof, there would…

— Michael Chabon

I thought poems were songs for people with bad voices.

— Lorna Dee Cervantes

I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't…

— James Laughlin