I can Quote by Pattiann Rogers

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

— William Hughes Mearns

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

— Carl Sandburg

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

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.

— Trevor McDonald

“YOU SAY "POET" LIKE THAT MEANS SOMETHING.”

— Amy King

Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to…

— David Whyte

Poetry connects you to yourself, to the self that doesn't know how to talk or negotiate.

— Rita Dove

Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.

— A. E. Housman

A poem doesn’t come out and tell you what it has to say. It circles back on itself, eating its own tail and making…

— Franny Billingsley

I've had people explain to me what one of my poems meant, and I've been surprised that it means that to them. If a…

— Maya Angelou

A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it.

— Randall Jarrell

Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem,…

— Sakyong Mipham