People Quote by Roger McGough

Poems are ideally suited, in some ways, to social media because they pack so much meaning into so little language.

— Michelle Dean

I like poems and keep sharing them online.

— Amitabh Bachchan

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.

— Seamus Heaney

Poems are other people's snapshots in which we see our own lives.

— Charles Simic

I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work.

— Joy Harjo

I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.

— Shelby Lynne

Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.

— Gao Xingjian

I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

— Lewis Carroll

For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.

— Robin Morgan

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

— Thomas Lynch

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

— John Fowles