Brave Quote by Peter Davison

Instead of noting down things I’m unlikely to forget, I will write a poem. Even if I have never written one before and even…

— Paulo Coelho

“Writing poems is simply an excuse to remember You.”

— Kamand Kojouri

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

I don't like poems that invent memories, I have enough of my own.

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.

— Maxine Kumin

I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they…

— Natasha Trethewey

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

— Anne Stevenson

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

— Peter Davison

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

— Philip Levine

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

— Randall Jarrell

I keep all my poems in my journals and lock them away. They are the start of everything.

— Stevie Nicks

I've always thought my poems told stories.

— Douglas Dunn