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Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight...every word is war.

— Rolf Dieter Brinkmann

We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.

— Thom Gunn

Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.

— Seamus Heaney

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

— Joy Harjo

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

— Seamus Heaney

“A poem is contained movement. ”

— William Everson

I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

— Honore de Balzac

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

— Wilfred Owen

I believe that poetry is a picture painted in colourful words. If your poem doesn't move you, then don't expect it to shake the…

— Thabang Tshabalala

A poem can use anything to talk about anything.

— Jane Hirshfield

Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.

— Ama Ata Aidoo