Children Quote by Nikki Giovanni

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

— Sylvia Plath

I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings…

— Andrew Motion

I've been surprised to learn how many people love poetry. It's beautiful to see that people want poetry in their lives.

— Peleg Top

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

I think many people love poetry who don't know they love it. People are sometimes afraid of poetry, or they've been introduced to poetry…

— Ellen Bass

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

— Thomas Lynch

Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for having expected…

— Tracy K. Smith

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 often say poetry was my first love.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

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

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

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I'm always talking about how the poems I am most obsessed with are like people: complex and unknowable and with a huge capacity for…

— Ada Limon