Alive Quote by Joy Harjo

I had written here and there about my mother in my poems. There are poems for her in my first and second books.

— Tracy K. Smith

Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them.

— Andrei Voznesensky

Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?

— William Wordsworth

Poetry can keep life itself alive. You can endure almost anything as long as you can sing about it.

— James Wright

I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.

— Shelby Lynne

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

— William Hazlitt

When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.

— Gregory Orr

Poetry contains almost all you need to know about life.

— Josephine Hart

Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious…

— Janet Fitch

Poems give you the lives of others and then circle in on your own inner world.

— Frances Mayes

I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.

— Robert Frost

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

— Thomas Lynch