Favors Quote by Pattiann Rogers

I'm not a poet. So the writing process is a difficult one for me.

— Billy Squier

They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.

— Tom Glazer

While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think…

— Thom Gunn

I love that people want to know about poetry. It's one of the ways of keeping alive.

— Joan Larkin

Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.

— Anne Waldman

After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end of being…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it.

— Mary Oliver

Poets are immersed in process, and I mean process not as an amorphous blur but as a discipline. The hard work of writing has…

— Kathleen Norris

I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it,…

— Stella Benson

The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have else they will never have better.

— Harriet Monroe

I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave.

— Dylan Thomas

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

— Howard Nemerov