Certain Quote by Rigoberto Gonzalez

I have some weak poems in that new collection, which is why I'm not ready to send the collection out yet.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

A book of poems doesn't just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you…

— Adrienne Rich

“There's something narcissistic in the phrase "collected poems." Who's collecting them? The poem. How hard is that? That's not a real collection. Now if…

— Nicholson Baker

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

— Thomas Lynch

My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.

— Helen Dunmore

I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work.

— Joy Harjo

I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume.

— Grazia Deledda

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

— Joseph Joubert

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

— Eugenio Montale

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

— Joseph Joubert

I've not been a prolific poet, and it always seemed to me to be a bad idea to feel that you had to produce…

— James Fenton

Poems are never finished - just abandoned

— Paul Valery