Discussing Quote by Helen Dunmore

I've learned a lot as a writer about poetry.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I've learned about marrying poetry and prose and making both accessible.

— Jacqueline Woodson

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

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

— Philip Levine

I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a…

— Edward Hirsch

Next to being a great poet, is the power of understanding one

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I share my life experiences as a poet with my students. My poetic difficulties, joys, struggles and discoveries. If I read a new poem…

— Dorianne Laux

Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who…

— Andrew Motion

I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.

— May Sarton

We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.

— T. S. Eliot

As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.

— Sylvia Plath

Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.

— James Broughton