Exterior Quote by Marilyn Hacker

Most of the time I'm not really attracted to writing that's focused on filling and fighting it out within a well-defined container. I like…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

I don't now whether I am a poet or not, but I'm quite sure that I write with the transparency of the soul and…

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all…

— Claire Tomalin

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

— Salvatore Quasimodo

One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music, you didn't…

— Jane Hirshfield

Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who…

— Andrew Motion

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.

— Edward Hirsch

I write the occasional poem. I think my dabbling in poetry makes me better at screenplays. Poetry teaches the value of condensing, the importance…

— Kamal Haasan

If there is anything unique about my writing it is the way that I combine poetry and prose, not just on the level of…

— Richard Grossman

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

— Carol Ann Duffy

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

— Truman Capote

“Often one spends weeks trying to write a poem out of the conscious mind that never comes to anything - these are sort of…

— Philip Larkin