Identity Quote by Masiela Lusha

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.

— Robert Fitzgerald

Once I started writing all the time and interacting with poets, I made a conscious decision to identify myself as a poet. It's funny…

— Tracy K. Smith

I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.

— May Sarton

I feel my poetry has contributed through all these languages that I needed to learn leading up to English.

— Masiela Lusha

I've written poetry most of my life.

— Julia Michaels

Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing…

— Marilyn Hacker

I write from the various experiences I live. Not every poem comes from my personal experience, though. It could be something that a friend…

— Rupi Kaur

I was an English major, and I always wrote poems.

— Mat Kearney

I don't let a poem go into the world unless I feel that I've transformed the experience in some way. Even poems I've written…

— Stephen Dunn

I am a poet, and I speak poetically.

— KRS-One

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 don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple…

— Bo Burnham