Different Quote by Jane Hirshfield

Every poet has a certain amount of "stuff." That's what you draw from for imagery. The more stuff you know well, not simply intellectually…

— Marge Piercy

I approach writing a poem in a much different state than when I am writing prose. It's almost as if I were working in…

— Pattiann Rogers

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

— Carol Ann Duffy

While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think…

— Thom Gunn

I'm not a poet. So the writing process is a difficult one for me.

— Billy Squier

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting andthen tie it up again, but differently.

— Anonymous

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

— Horace

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

— Jean Cocteau

I don't do much of anything consciously in writing - in poetry writing, anyway, prose usually being a different matter, of course.

— Ron Padgett

“The thing that makes poetry different from all other arts [is that] you're using language, which is what you use for everything else--telling lies…

— W.S. Merwin

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those…

— Marilyn Hacker

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

— Ed Westwick