Agree Quote by Howard Nemerov

I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much…

— Howard Nemerov

I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a…

— James Dickey

I wonder about all the roads not taken and am moved to quote Frost...but won't. It is sad to be able only to mouth…

— Sylvia Plath

I'm very conscious of the fact that every line should have a cadence to it. It should contribute to the progress of the poem.…

— Billy Collins

“A poem isn't a good poem, until you need it.”

— J. David Gray

“Robert Frost didn’t like to explain his poems—and for good reason: to explain a poem is to suck the air from its lungs. This…

— Tony Leuzzi

“also, the oldest notion still in vogue is that if you can’t understand a poem then it almost certainly is a good one.”

— Charles Bukowski

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

and for the first time in my life I understand the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have to believe…

— Stephen Chbosky

I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a…

— Alexander Pope

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something…

— Mary Oliver

“The Poet Asks His Love to Write" Visceral love, living death, in vain, I wait your written word, and consider, with the flower that…

— Federico García Lorca