Books Quote by Marilyn Hacker

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

— Robert Frost

I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.

— Natasha Trethewey

I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very…

— Robert Morgan

A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what…

— Matthea Harvey

We all need poetry. The moments in our lives that are characterized by language that has to do with necessity or the market, or…

— Tracy K. Smith

I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual…

— Eavan Boland

For poetry is, I believe, always an act of the spirit. The poem teaches us something while we make it. The poem makes you…

— May Sarton

A poem can use anything to talk about anything.

— Jane Hirshfield

Writing a poem is discovering.

— Robert Frost

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

— Ed Westwick

Poem in other words may or may not result from inspiration but must (in reader and author alike) produce it--

— Franz Wright

Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own…

— James Laughlin