Doe Quote by James Buchan

It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she is a…

— Ron Padgett

Particularly when I thought of myself as a Wallace Stevens acolyte, I wrote very difficult poetry and I was really guilty of not knowing…

— Billy Collins

I myself always want to talk about "poetry," not "the poem."

— Paul Fry

Daydreaming is one of the key sources of poetry - a poem often starts as a daydream that finds its way into language -…

— Edward Hirsch

I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction in terms.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Why do most people write poems about nature? For the same reason that every community center is propped up with industrious, self painted landscapes:…

— Martinus Hendrikus Benders

“A poem does not radiate from the name, but the name emanates from the poem.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Many of the poets writing today are hung up on language and symbolism. If the poem does not have depth of meaning or fit…

— Harley King

“I'm trying to let a poem do what a poem does: Make things simpler We don't need poems to make things more complicated We…

— Colleen Hoover

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure…

— J. K. Rowling

A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a…

— Wilfred Owen