Curiosity Quote by Lucille Clifton

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.

— Adrienne Rich

Poems come from incomplete knowledge.

— Diane Wakoski

I'm always doing poems from a place of not-knowing, a place of ignorance in a way.

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

And sometimes you look at the first poems by someone and you go, "They have freshness and a sense of wonder that is never…

— Edward Hirsch

“Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to…

— Sharon Olds

So many poems you go into and come up empty.

— Maxine Kumin

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

— Seamus Heaney

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

— Thomas Lynch

Poetry surprises us with what we already know.

— John Fuller

Creating a poem is a continual process of re-creating your ignorance, in the sense of not knowing what's coming next.

— Derek Walcott

How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.

— John Lennon