Bits Quote by Matthew Zapruder

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

— Sylvia Plath

One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem.

— Jane Hirshfield

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

— Thomas Lynch

For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)-they are experiences.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being,…

— T. S. Eliot

Poetry can magnify experience.

— May Swenson

A certain kind of poetry looks back at experience from an older perspective.

— Edward Hirsch

My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new…

— Anonymous

For me poems are acts re-done, and that can vibrate well into the future.

— Anne Waldman

The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.

— David Whyte

I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.

— Carol Ann Duffy

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

— Wislawa Szymborska