Happens Quote by Howard Nemerov

I think that in the process of writing, all kinds of unexpected things happen that shift the poet away from his plan and that…

— John Ashbery

I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer…

— Barbara Kingsolver

All poetry comes from repetition.

— Kenneth Koch

There is a kind of poetry in simple fact.

— Edward Abbey

You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.

— Sherman Alexie

The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.

— Paul Muldoon

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

— Charles Bukowski

Every word was once a poem.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It may be that poetry makes life's nebulous events tangible to me and restores their detail; or conversely, that poetry brings forth the intangible…

— Frank O'Hara

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

— W. S. Merwin

Poetry can cause irreparable harm when misapplied

— Gail Carriger

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

— Wallace Stevens