Full Quote by Eric Whitacre

Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I…

— Carly Simon

There's something immediate about the experience of reading a poem - whether it's the music or some other element of it - that just…

— Kevin Powers

“Dismantle the sun, pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods: For nothing now can ever come to any good…” The poem by…

— Lori Ryan

“A good poem doesn't need to rhyme or have fancy words. It needs to touch the reader, hug them when arms cannot do the…

— Goldie Nanwani

A good poem has its own life. It's like bringing a child into the world. You, the poet, birthed the child, but the child…

— David Whyte

What I responded to, on the page, was the way a poem could liberate, by means of a word's setting, through subtleties of timing,…

— Louise Gluck

One of my favorite passages in 'Leaves of Grass,' that breathless, exuberant poem so rich and full of innocence and joy and generosity and…

— Cathleen Schine

In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A successful poem says what a poet wants to say, and more, with particular finality. The remarks he makes about his poems are incidental…

— Randall Jarrell

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A good poem is an amazing thing: a perfectly distilled, articulate moment. It opens you up - sometimes slowly, like the blooming of a…

— Celeste Ng

A good poem is a contribution to reality.

— Dylan Thomas