Daggers Quote by Frederick Seidel

I like poems that are daggers that sing.

— Frederick Seidel

I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.

— Mark Strand

I like poems that affect me emotionally and also provoke me to further, deeper thought. I enjoy challenge, but not, I think, for its…

— James Arthur

What I like about prose poems is that they seem to make people uncomfortable - people want to define them, justify them, attack them.…

— Matthea Harvey

My poems are like a dagger Sprouting flowers from the hilt; My poetry is like a fountain Sprinkling streams of coral water.

— Jose Marti

I like it when poems are challenging, when they concern matters important and personal to the author.

— Cate Marvin

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

— Edward Hirsch

Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.

— Nikki Giovanni

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

— Sylvia Plath

I also like poems that are haunted by a structure or a narrative, or poems that frisk flirtatiously at the boundary of sense.

— Matthea Harvey

For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.

— Dana Goodyear