Accurate Quote by Matthea Harvey

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

— Thomas Lynch

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

My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that…

— Sharon Olds

I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have.

— Alex Lemon

I'm all over my poems, even if their relation to my everyday life is that of dream to reality.

— Matthea Harvey

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

— Donald Hall

I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have. I try to give to…

— Alex Lemon

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

— Sylvia Plath

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

— Charles Simic

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

— Ed Westwick

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

I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One fits on…

— Yusef Komunyakaa