Connections Quote by Kevin Young

I'm always talking about how the poems I am most obsessed with are like people: complex and unknowable and with a huge capacity for…

— Ada Limon

“Good writing arises out of obsession. With obsession there is emotional depth and a certain weight and gravity to the language and story. Without…

— Fred Arroyo

Writing is putting one's obsessions in order.

— Jean Grenier

Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.

— Wallace Stevens

The way a great poet takes an idea, small like the bud of a flower and makes it bloom. And makes you feel deeply..

— Melody Minagar

Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.

— Gertrude Stein

“Poetry is when emotion blooms like flowers with the petals of words and spreads the fragrance of perception.”

— Debasish Mridha

Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear.

— Thomas Lynch

That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes…

— Virginia Woolf

There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.

— Dana Goodyear

“Words in a poem are like petals on a flower, only together, in the right position, at the right time are they seen as…

— David McDonald

It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.

— Erica Jong