Answers Quote by Pattiann Rogers

Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.

— Helen Vendler

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

— William Hughes Mearns

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with…

— Robert Graves

A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is…

— Mark Strand

Poetry can be the bridge, the crossover point in the mind between the physical and the spiritual. A place where the two can meet.

— Don Pendleton

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

— Thomas Lynch

A poem doesn't do everything for you. You are supposed to go on with your thinking. You are supposed to enrich the other person's…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

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

— Seamus Heaney

Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun.

— Gwen Harwood

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

— Howard Nemerov

People have explored these questions ['Why am I here?', 'What is life about?'] in poems, not that they found their answers, but in reading…

— Gwee Li Sui