Angel Quote by May Sarton

For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic.

— James Broughton

The reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again.

— Mark Strand

The poetry when I was a kid felt like something that I could control, and whether it failed or not, whether it was good…

— Amber Tamblyn

What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.

— Sherman Alexie

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

— Sylvia Plath

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

— Andrew Motion

Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.

— Alice Walker

My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness or absurdity.

— Hayden Carruth

The true poem rests between the words.

— Vanna Bonta

For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit.

— Tracy K. Smith

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

— Seamus Heaney

True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his…

— Epes Sargent