Ideas Quote by Philip Schultz

These days, if you happen to be a poet you have to sing your words to get your ideas out.

— Sara Genn

I have no desire to dress up my poetry and make it fancy. I want the poem to be as true as humanly possible…

— Adelia Prado

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

— Thomas Lynch

As a guiding principle I believe that every poem must be its own sole freshly created universe, and therefore have no belief n 'tradition'…

— Philip Larkin

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

— C. K. Williams

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

— Stephane Mallarme

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

— Sylvia Plath

When a poem doesn't work, the first question to ask yourself is, 'Am I telling the truth?'

— Wendy Cope

Poems can't help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record of my…

— Matthea Harvey

Poems, to me, do not come from ideas, they come from a series of images that you tuck away in the back of your…

— Carolyn Kizer

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

— Andrew Motion

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