Feels Quote by Robert Graves

Poems can't help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record of my…

— Matthea Harvey

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

— Thomas Lynch

I'm all over my poems, even if their relation to my everyday life is that of dream to reality.

— Matthea Harvey

I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.

— Maxine Kumin

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

— Sylvia Plath

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

— Honore de Balzac

A lot of poems are boring and impenetrable. Mine are not. They're really simple.

— Tim Key

My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that…

— Sharon Olds

I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in the nature…

— Andrew Motion

I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.

— Martin Gore

I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.

— Edith Södergran

You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch with to…

— Edward Hirsch