Beginners Quote by May Sarton

“Writers are not called poets just because they make words rhyme. Poets respond to an inner calling that enables them to add symmetry to…

— John Casperson

All babies are incoherent, but they grow up. That is the principle difference between an infant and a poet.

— Sharyn McCrumb

Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them.

— Andrei Voznesensky

Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pain and hurt of being a…

— Jimmy Santiago Baca

Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature that wants…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Babies are like poems. They're beautiful to their creator, but to other people, they're silly and they're irritating.

— Doug Stanhope

The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words…

— Dylan Thomas

Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.

— Richard Eyre

“A good poem doesn't need to rhyme or have fancy words. It needs to touch the reader, hug them when arms cannot do the…

— Goldie Nanwani

May you be ordinary, as the poet once wished the new-born baby.

— Julian Barnes

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

— Robert Frost

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

— Robert Penn Warren