Boundaries Quote by Matthea Harvey

I like the machinery of poems, especially when they have human warmth.

— Edward Hirsch

I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.

— Mark Strand

I like poems that are complex.

— Peter Davison

What I like about prose poems is that they seem to make people uncomfortable - people want to define them, justify them, attack them.…

— Matthea Harvey

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

— John Ashbery

I like poems that immediately claim my attention, instead of taking my attention for granted. At first read, I want to feel compelled to…

— James Arthur

The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual - all of that fermenting together. It…

— Adrienne Rich

Poems are a dance of language that comes out when my body taps into the rhythm of language. Rhythm gets us naked and exposes…

— Kim Hyesoon

I like it when poems are challenging, when they concern matters important and personal to the author.

— Cate Marvin

I never find words right away. Poems for me always begin with images and rhythms, shapes, feelings, forms, dances in the back of my…

— Gary Snyder

I like poems that inspire, that make us think and reflect. It's like putting love into the world for whoever picks it up.

— Peleg Top

Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express.

— Erica Jong