Boundaries Quote by Jane Hirshfield

What I want, when I write a poem, is no more than this: that it be preserved in some published form so that, in…

— James Fenton

I keep all my poems in my journals and lock them away. They are the start of everything.

— Stevie Nicks

I'm always doing poems from a place of not-knowing, a place of ignorance in a way.

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

I don't want to write poems that are just really clear about how I'm aware of all the traps involved in writing poetry; I…

— Ben Lerner

You want a poem to unsettle something. There's a deep and interesting kind of troubling that poems do, which is to say, 'This is…

— Tracy K. Smith

I wrote poetry in a secretive way, I think, a secret from myself, I mean. I wrote it because it gave me great pleasure…

— Philip Schultz

Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.

— Seamus Heaney

My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.

— Jean Cocteau

I have to interweave my poetry with purpose. For me, that purpose is to help people, and to shed a light on issues that…

— Amanda Gorman

Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.

— Jean Cocteau

The spiritual desire for poetry can be overwhelming, so much do I need it to experience and name my own perilous depths and vast…

— Edward Hirsch

One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music, you didn't…

— Jane Hirshfield