Abstract Quote by Gregory Orr

So for whatever reason those short lines just felt right to me, in my physical self. They were right for the movement of the…

— Matthew Zapruder

They’re called poems but in reality they’re lines given to me to hang on to

— John Trudell

I wanted many of the poems to have long legs. At first I was calling them clothespin poems, before I knew what I was…

— Lucie Brock-Broido

Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear.

— Thomas Lynch

There are definitely connections between poems, but I wanted each to stand on its own. I guess it goes back to the idea of…

— Kevin Powers

I wrote a lot of poetry in the last two years of high school, all about the same girl I was in love with.…

— Hari Kondabolu

Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all…

— Lauren Oliver

Poems, to me, do not come from ideas, they come from a series of images that you tuck away in the back of your…

— Carolyn Kizer

Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual…

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won’t.

— Dorianne Laux

with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole life long,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I never find words right away. Poems for me always begin with images and rhythms, shapes, feelings, forms, dances in the back of my…

— Gary Snyder