Better Quote by Edward Hirsch

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

— Sylvia Plath

My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that…

— Sharon Olds

Poems can't help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record of my…

— Matthea Harvey

I like poems that inspire, that make us think and reflect. It's like putting love into the world for whoever picks it up.

— Peleg Top

I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.

— Pink

The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when…

— Linton Kwesi Johnson

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

I like to write about things that are dark or twisted. Where the poetry seems to be is when you start in the dark…

— Joshua Homme

I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my…

— Natasha Trethewey

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

— Ed Westwick

I wrote poetry in a secretive way, I think, a secret from myself, I mean. I wrote it because it gave me great pleasure…

— Philip Schultz

The poetry when I was a kid felt like something that I could control, and whether it failed or not, whether it was good…

— Amber Tamblyn