Actually Quote by Robert Adamson

I've written some poetry, but...songs have to be more poetic, and I've really gotten to this non-poetic sort of writing.

— Mike Gordon

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

— Sylvia Plath

I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have.

— Alex Lemon

Over many years so many poets have touched my imagination and opened paths for me - it hardly makes sense to list them. I…

— Adrienne Rich

I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write. I think all poets must feel this: that there…

— Carol Ann Duffy

I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have. I try to give to…

— Alex Lemon

Unfinished Poem I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.

— John O'Donohue

Started writing poetry the other day. POETR, it's coming along nicely.

— Anonymous

Next, suddenly, lightning suddenly, while I am still a child, a branch is lopped from my being, and a portion of my childhood ends…

— Hal Porter

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

— Seamus Heaney

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

— Sigmund Freud

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens…

— Russell Baker