Another way Quote by Gregory Orr

“My Poetry book ”

— Rabisha

“Poets must first ponder themselves and learn to see the beauty within them to allow the beauty to spill out of them in ink…

— Jeffrey G. Duarte

I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work.

— Joy Harjo

With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the text, but the text -…

— Eric Whitacre

There are some books in which every poem is a facet of the same thing. So the book is like a piece of music.…

— Joan Larkin

A book of poems doesn't just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you…

— Adrienne Rich

“a poet can always find something good to write about.”

— Colleen Houck

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

— Vincent Van Gogh

There's a fine line between writing the poem and the poem writing itself. You have to be there and not be there, too.

— David Meltzer

If I knew how to say it directly, I would not need to write poetry. I would just talk to people and be happy.

— Selima Hill

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

— Joseph Joubert

Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.

— Mary Oliver