Best poem Quote by Langston Hughes

The worst thing you write is better than the best thing you didn't write.

— Anonymous

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

— Sylvia Plath

My poetry is the most disappointing thing for me that I've ever written. When I say I can write everything, I don't say I…

— Jess Walter

There are times when I'm really happy and I write something really sad, and vice versa.

— Juan Gabriel

I was a pretty happy kid, I had to fake it. I had to get into this miserable character before I wrote poems.

— Billy Collins

My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I…

— Anne Stevenson

At times of crisis or distress, it's poems that people turn to. (Poetry) still has a power to speak to people's feelings, maybe in…

— Blake Morrison

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

— Isabel Allende

I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

— Honore de Balzac

“Always write exactly what you’re feeling at the exact moment when writing something like poetry or an emotional novel. Put yourself, pour all emotions…

— Nina Jean Slack

No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.

— Felix Dennis

My own emotional health issues were bullying me during the time I was drafting that poem. It was a pressure I couldn't pin down…

— Gregory Pardlo