Ashamed Quote by Robert Hass

Poems are difficult to silence.

— Stephen Greenblatt

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

— Charles Simic

I'm ashamed to admit that I very seldom read poetry, even though many of my friends are poets.

— Celeste Ng

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.

— Stephen Dobyns

What we feel is beyond words. We should be ashamed of our poems.

— Nizar Qabbani

My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the…

— Anna Kamienska

I never deny poems when they come; whatever I am doing, whatever I am writing, I lay it aside and attend to the arriving…

— Amy Lowell

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

— Isaac Rosenberg

Never write a poem about anything that ought to have a poem written about it.

— Richard Hugo

A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession.

— Jorie Graham

I've always felt that poetry is the enemy of silence, but of course, in the right moments, silence can be useful. The trick is…

— Cornelius Eady