Doe Quote by Grace Cavalieri

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

— Sylvia Plath

I don't spend time thinking about an aesthetic out of which I create or an ideal toward which my body of work is heading.…

— Albert Goldbarth

You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a…

— Phyllis Gotlieb

While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think…

— Thom Gunn

My biggest poetic influences are probably 20th-century British and Irish poets. So I suppose I'm always listening for the music I associate with that…

— David Starkey

A poem is something sacred. Let no one Take it for anything except itself.

— Jose Marti

The spiritual desire for poetry can be overwhelming, so much do I need it to experience and name my own perilous depths and vast…

— Edward Hirsch

When you find it you become the secret addressee of a literary text and I felt that their reader had been left out of…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

— Charles Simic

I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work…

— Helen Vendler

And when you are entering into poetry, whatever stage you're at, you are participating in something with a very long and noble tradition.

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal -…

— May Sarton