Day life Quote by Matthea Harvey

I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with…

— Robert Graves

Poems can't help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record of my…

— Matthea Harvey

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

— Erica Jong

Poems are other people's snapshots in which we see our own lives.

— Charles Simic

When I'm most deeply involved in my writing, sometimes I do dream about poetry, and occasionally I wake up from a dream with a…

— James Arthur

I've written poetry most of my life.

— Julia Michaels

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

— Thomas Lynch

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

— Sylvia Plath

Poet? No. Writer? No. I am just a dreamer.

— Raghib Clitso

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

— Seamus Heaney

A good poem is a contribution to reality.

— Dylan Thomas

My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.

— Henry David Thoreau