Might Quote by Jandy Nelson

I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.

— May Sarton

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

— Philip Levine

think what you hope for is that at different times of your life you're able to write the poetry that reflects the moment that…

— Edward Hirsch

It's very special that I can go through things - and write them down and record them - and so many people can relate.…

— Jorja Smith

There's always some reason not to be writing and I regret the times I give in to that, because then writing feels strange -…

— Joan Larkin

I'm a storyteller, and everyone in this family expresses themselves through writing to get through life's milestones.

— Joely Fisher

I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the…

— Helen Dunmore

My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.

— Natasha Trethewey

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

— Frederick Busch

Writing poetry, which for me was then saying how I felt about this and that, didn't help me to understand the world I lived…

— Grace Paley

I've been writing most of my life; it's just something I do.

— Alejandro Zambra

I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.

— Shelby Lynne