Accurate Quote by Rachel Zucker

I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself.

— Seamus Heaney

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

— Ed Westwick

Thinking in prose is different. I gained an immense amount of respect for people who write prose, and also felt even more sure that…

— Matthew Zapruder

“Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Poetry...is full of visions pulled more from our hearts than from our minds. Our greatest poems are written in the dust of our deepest…

— John H Ritter

“Does the poem reside in experience or in self-consciousness about experience?”

— Mark Doty

I want the poem to be an experience - for both the listener and for myself.

— Anne Waldman

“Poetry is pure thoughts.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.

— Howard Nemerov

Somewhere back a whiskey or so ago I wrote that thinking was a real thing in the world, just like anything else. I mean…

— Matthew Zapruder

I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.

— Kapil Sibal

“The poet thinks with his poem...”

— William Carlos Williams