Access Quote by Edward Hirsch

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

— William Hughes Mearns

Poetry connects you to yourself, to the self that doesn't know how to talk or negotiate.

— Rita Dove

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

— Caroline Kennedy

“Poetry is a way of expressing your thoughts, feelings, and your emotions, it's how you go through life in your own special way of…

— Anonymous

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

— C.D. Wright

To write poetry is to be very alone, but you always have the company of your influences. But you also have the company of…

— Billy Collins

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being,…

— T. S. Eliot

Poetry is a way of being alone without feeling alone. It allows you to experience another mind, I suppose. And it does that more…

— Nick Laird

I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and…

— Alice Walker

I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.

— Carl Sandburg

“Poets and poetry help us express our emotions and experiences, making us feel less alone in our struggles.”

— Wajid Shaikh

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

— Carl Sandburg