Books Quote by Rita Dove

Often I'm struck by something that I read; then I go and research it a little more, especially if I begin a poem, and…

— Pattiann Rogers

From the beginning I felt that I didn't ever want to leave the impression that the process of writing a poem is totally mysterious.…

— Pattiann Rogers

Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising…

— Joshua Reynolds

I don't now whether I am a poet or not, but I'm quite sure that I write with the transparency of the soul and…

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

I hope I can write toward my interests. But poets should be afraid of too fluidly responding to what they're interested in.

— Shane McCrae

An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.

— Anonymous

It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think…

— James Schuyler

I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm…

— Diane Wakoski

Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is…

— Edward Hirsch

I'm pretty instinctual when I write, and I really like to get to a point where I'm writing where I don't know what's going…

— Brian Evenson

I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.

— Mark Strand

Sometimes a poem appeals to me technically, just because of the way a line feels on my lips. Sometimes it is because it says…

— Frank Skinner