Firsts Quote by Jane Hirshfield

It's absolutely crucial to maintain my life as a poet.

— Edward Hirsch

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

— Thomas Lynch

For me life is just one big poem, each day I wrote something new.

— Jeremy Limn

Poetry is my life, my postmark, my hands, my kitchen, my face.

— Anne Sexton

“We don't read and write poetry because it is cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And…

— Tom Schulman

“Life is a poem just waiting to be written, lift your pen and speak.”

— Susie Clevenger

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

— Robert Penn Warren

Poetry is a life-cherishing force.

— Mary Oliver

The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

— Louise Glück

I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in…

— Sylvia Plath

I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out…

— Lucy Larcom

Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson