Favourite Quote by Groucho Marx

My favourite poem is called 'Roots and Wings' - it's a very moving poem about how if you've got real roots you can fly.

— David Miliband

My favorite poem ever was 'Annabel Lee' by Edgar Allan Poe.

— Ross Lynch

What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.

— Sherman Alexie

Poems can't help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record of my…

— Matthea Harvey

I think a good poem should have some inscrutable part. You can't quite explain it. The poem can only explain itself to a certain…

— Billy Collins

I love September, especially when we're in it.

— Willie Stargell

I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.

— Nell Freudenberger

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

— Cate Marvin

I write one poem a year, usually in January or February.

— Emily Susan Rapp

I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy seems to strike my need for sadness. There is poetry in the dying of the…

— Kyffin Williams

September is my favourite month, particularly in Cornwall. I felt, even as a child, that if you get a wonderful day in September, you…

— Tim Rice