Found Quote by Edward Hirsch

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

— Henry David Thoreau

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

— Andrew Motion

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

— Donald Hall

When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.

— Mario Benedetti

Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.

— C. K. Williams

For me life is just one big poem, each day I wrote something new.

— Jeremy Limn

A decade ago, my poems were precious little boxes, small and claustrophobic, completely inward gazing. I didn't possess the command to speak beyond the…

— Robin Beth Schaer

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

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

— Peter Davison

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

— Mark Strand

A poem is like a child; at some point we have to let it go and trust that it will make its own way…

— Dorianne Laux

I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.

— Carol Ann Duffy