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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 write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.

— May Sarton

I don't let a poem go into the world unless I feel that I've transformed the experience in some way. Even poems I've written…

— Stephen Dunn

A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, the history of people in…

— Natasha Trethewey

I've written poetry most of my life.

— Julia Michaels

I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

— Jeffery Deaver

If the motive of writing is for some people a kind of exercise in dirty laundry, that's one thing. I've always thought of my…

— Stephen Dunn

As far as poetry, I don't know if I've ever written any. I've read a lot. I just write and it comes out in…

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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

I always write from a personal place - whether it be about my friends or myself or a story that I heard.

— Sharon Van Etten

Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great…

— Madeleine L'Engle