Distracted Quote by Jane Hirshfield

My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the…

— Anna Kamienska

I've always felt that poetry is the enemy of silence, but of course, in the right moments, silence can be useful. The trick is…

— Cornelius Eady

Poems are difficult to silence.

— Stephen Greenblatt

Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the…

— Marianne Wiggins

The poets who do this are uniquely conscious of this silence, this stillness.

— Russell Simmons

Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.

— Adrienne Rich

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

— Charles Simic

Poetry is an orphan of silence.

— Charles Simic

I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence.

— Louis Sachar

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off…

— John Ashbery

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very…

— Rumi

One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.

— Stephen Dobyns