Accomplish Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke

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

— Thomas Lynch

I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much…

— Howard Nemerov

Early poems are a thing it takes years to live down.

— Angela Thirkell

If at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you've written one line of…

— e. e. cummings

When I'm constructing a poem, I'm trying to write one good line after another. One solid line after another. You know a lot of…

— Billy Collins

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.

— Edward Hirsch

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

One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music, you didn't…

— Jane Hirshfield

“Lineation can make your break your poems.”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of…

— Philip Larkin

Poetry can startle you, awaken you, make you fall in love, take your breath away. When those words sink in, you'll never look at…

— Maria Shriver

The poet lives as long as his lines are imprinted on the minds of his readers.

— Alan Bold