Because Quote by Natasha Trethewey

Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand…

— Natasha Trethewey

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

— Sylvia Plath

I wrote poetry from the time I could write. That was the only way I could begin to express who I was but the…

— Francesca Lia Block

Writing poetry, which for me was then saying how I felt about this and that, didn't help me to understand the world I lived…

— Grace Paley

Particularly when I thought of myself as a Wallace Stevens acolyte, I wrote very difficult poetry and I was really guilty of not knowing…

— Billy Collins

From the beginning I felt that I didn't ever want to leave the impression that the process of writing a poem is totally mysterious.…

— Pattiann Rogers

When you find it you become the secret addressee of a literary text and I felt that their reader had been left out of…

— Edward Hirsch

For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over…

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

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

I came to poetry because I felt I couldn't live properly in the real world.

— Lucie Brock-Broido

I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.

— Carl Sandburg

I believed even then that if I could transform my experience into poetry I would give it the value and dignity it did not…

— Philip Levine