Ask me Quote by Robert Frost

I don't go get a poem. It calls me and I accept it.

— Lucille Clifton

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

— Isaac Rosenberg

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

— Thomas Lynch

When something is too beautiful or too terrible or even too funny for words, then it is time for poetry.

— Eve Merriam

Sometimes a poem should just be about a girl jumping rope. It doesn't have to be something that is imbued with more despair.

— Clint Smith

Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.

— C. K. Williams

I'm always glad that other people are way smarter about my poems than I am.

— Shane McCrae

“A poem isn't a good poem, until you need it.”

— J. David Gray

I'm very clever at hiding poems perhaps more clever than I am at writing them.

— Charles Bukowski

Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun.

— Gwen Harwood

Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light.

— Gregory Orr

“Poetry is not a lost art. Poetry is better than ever. Of course you’ve got the usual gang of idiots (as the Mad magazine…

— Stephen King