Bounds Quote by Philip Larkin

It's difficult to put your own bare ass out on the limb every time you sit down to write a poem. But that's really…

— Sam Hamill

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but…

— John Keats

For me, poetry is a way of thinking, and like many poets, I'm driven by the idea of trying to find the impossible, perfect…

— James Arthur

I've got mixed feelings about poetry cause done well poetry is fantastic. But not many people are capable of doing it well. I think…

— Craig Ferguson

Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way,…

— C. K. Williams

I love poetry, but I find it so difficult to write well.

— Emily Susan Rapp

To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.

— Lucille Clifton

I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I try not to think in terms of what poems or poets should do. Most of us appreciate a wide diversity in music, in…

— James Arthur

I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.

— Michael Helm

If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great…

— Donald Hall

I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her; the reader…

— Lydia Davis