Become Quote by Jess Walter

Poems can't help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record of my…

— Matthea Harvey

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

— Sylvia Plath

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

— Thomas Lynch

My poems mean what people take them to mean.

— Paul Valery

Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which…

— N. Scott Momaday

Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun.

— Gwen Harwood

I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with…

— Robert Graves

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

— Rick Fox

My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. … it filled me with…

— William Carlos Williams

I never find words right away. Poems for me always begin with images and rhythms, shapes, feelings, forms, dances in the back of my…

— Gary Snyder

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

— Robert Penn Warren

Poems evolve. I don't feel like I choose them; they just come to me.

— Kevin Young