Cases Quote by Roger McGough

My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.

— Henry David Thoreau

Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.

— Dante Alighieri

“Dear . . . You’re the poem I couldn’t finish The journey I should have never started I saw tragedy in our ending My…

— Samantha King

In today's world it is deceptively easy to lose sight of our direction and the things that matter and give us joy. How quickly…

— Roger Housden

A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.

— Alexander Brome

The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.

— Marguerite Young

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

— C. K. Williams

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

— Andrew Motion

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life.

— Eavan Boland

If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my childhood to…

— Hermann Hesse

When death comes…. I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering: what it’s going to be like, that cottage of darkness?…

— Mary Oliver

And what I've found over time is that for me to write a poem that I think is worthy that I can live with,…

— Edward Hirsch