Attention Quote by James Arthur

Poems reveal secrets when they are analyzed. The poet's pleasure in finding ingenious ways to enclose her secrets should be matched by the reader's…

— Diane Wakoski

“When I write poetry, I’ll write it down, or a tiny bit of it, and then have to depend on the reader to bring…

— William Anderson

You want a poem to unsettle something. There's a deep and interesting kind of troubling that poems do, which is to say, 'This is…

— Tracy K. Smith

I also like poems that are haunted by a structure or a narrative, or poems that frisk flirtatiously at the boundary of sense.

— Matthea Harvey

I never find words right away. Poems for me always begin with images and rhythms, shapes, feelings, forms, dances in the back of my…

— Gary Snyder

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

— Seamus Heaney

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Poems evolve. I don't feel like I choose them; they just come to me.

— Kevin Young

I see poetry as a path toward new understanding and transformation, and so I've looked at specific poems I love, and at poetry's gestures…

— Jane Hirshfield

Poems mesmerized me, and I felt better when I was writing them, or trying to - more in touch with something deep and dark…

— Edward Hirsch