Poetry Quote by Howard Nemerov

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

— Ed Westwick

I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.

— Kapil Sibal

You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a…

— Phyllis Gotlieb

I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.

— Carol Ann Duffy

For poetry is, I believe, always an act of the spirit. The poem teaches us something while we make it. The poem makes you…

— May Sarton

I think of everything that I want to say and then I think of the way that I can say it most precisely. And…

— Helen Frost

The strength of the poetry as we enter into whatever it is we are entering into, will be determined by the clarity of the…

— John Trudell

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

— Howard Nemerov

One of the ways in which I feel close to God is writing poetry.

— Christian Wiman

I read a lot of prose poetry and get inspired by more-so just a state of mind.

— William Beckett

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

— Norman MacCaig

With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as…

— James Laughlin