Baskets Quote by Leonard Cohen

Oh, I've discarded a great many [poems]. And occasionally I've discarded and then resurrected. I would find a crumpled yellow ball of paper in…

— Conrad Aiken

When I get sent manuscripts from aspiring poets, I do one of two things: if there is no stamped self-addressed envelope, I throw it…

— Philip Larkin

Poems are never finished - just abandoned

— Paul Valery

Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.

— Seamus Heaney

I like when a poem ends on its "receipts," meaning it gives me something tactile or tangible to dwell on as I exit the…

— Allison Joseph

I never try to force poems into a collection simply because they were written/published within a certain period of time. They will eventually find…

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

I would especially like to re-court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a…

— John Updike

The poem is a structure of signifiers which absorbs and reconstitutes the signified.

— Jonathan Culler

I was fortunate enough to get a job at my alma mater, which brought me back to Indiana after being gone for twenty years.…

— Adrian Matejka

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

— Joseph Joubert

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

— Joseph Joubert

I think that poetry is important when you are shipwrecked, when the ordinary structures that hold you up are gone.

— Robert Bly