Comfort Quote by Edward Hirsch

I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.

— Margaret Atwood

I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.

— Jane Campion

Writing poetry, which for me was then saying how I felt about this and that, didn't help me to understand the world I lived…

— Grace Paley

I tended to write poems about both social and spiritual problems, and some problems one doesn't really want to solve, and so the problems…

— C. K. Williams

I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.

— J. K. Rowling

I like the machinery of poems, especially when they have human warmth.

— Edward Hirsch

In fact, lots of good poetry doesn't work , so I don't mind a bit of mystification or difficulty.

— Nick Laird

Poetry helps my soul escape its encasement.

— Maya Angelou

I came to poetry because I felt I couldn't live properly in the real world.

— Lucie Brock-Broido

What I try to do is to keep emotion on a tight leash; otherwise, it can never be transubstantiated into poetry.

— Kiki Dimoula

One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.

— James Fenton

I write poetry to figure things out. Any time I’m trying to wrap my head around something, poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for…

— Sarah Kay