Alarms Quote by James Arthur

Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

I do read a poem almost every morning. Unless I'm really, really late, I have to get my poem in.

— Sue Monk Kidd

Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in an otherwise…

— Edward Hirsch

Poems can't help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record of my…

— Matthea Harvey

Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express.

— Erica Jong

When I'm most deeply involved in my writing, sometimes I do dream about poetry, and occasionally I wake up from a dream with a…

— James Arthur

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

I am a relatively rational being and I like to create order in poems. I like meter, I like rhyme, but ultimately I don't…

— Mary Jo Salter

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

— Ed Westwick

What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.

— Sherman Alexie

Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my…

— Erica Jong

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