Deep Quote by Edward Hirsch

Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.

— Toi Derricotte

I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.

— Shelby Lynne

If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great…

— Donald Hall

I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I've learned a lot as a writer about poetry.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind.

— Christina Aguilera

a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time.

— Vladimir Nabokov

I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.

— Natasha Trethewey

You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what…

— Adrienne Rich

Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use…

— Mahmoud Darwish

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The way to become a poet is to read poetry and to imitate what you read and to read passionately and widely and in…

— Edward Hirsch