Courage Quote by Paulo Coelho

If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I had written some poems that people are not going to…

— Peter Davison

The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.

— Peter Davison

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

— Randall Jarrell

I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

— Honore de Balzac

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

— Anne Stevenson

I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have…

— Peter Davison

Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.

— C. K. Williams

When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best…

— Ben Okri

And what I've found over time is that for me to write a poem that I think is worthy that I can live with,…

— Edward Hirsch

As you continue writing and rewriting, you begin to see possibilities you hadn't seen before. Writing a poem is always a process of discovery.

— Robert Hayden

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

— Trevor McDonald

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

— James Schuyler