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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

“We have many shelves of poetry at home, but still, it takes an effort to step out of the daily narrative of existence, draw…

— Ian McEwan

You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing…

— Robert Frost

I use poetry to help me work through what I don’t understand, but I show up to each new poem with a backpack full…

— Sarah Kay

Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry…

— William Osler

Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.

— Mark Strand

I always feel that there is a curtain, you know, that if I could just peek behind the curtain I'd see how the world…

— Charles de Lint

I make a discovery in a poem as I write it.

— Rita Dove

Often as a poet I find that I am somewhat outside an experience I want to hold onto, consciously taking mental notes or writing…

— Natasha Trethewey

A phrase may come to me as I am walking, and, once I write it down in my journal, the rest of the poem…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

I write a thousand words a day, and I always stop in the middle of a scene or thought, and it makes it easy…

— Peter Heller

I'm a struggling poet. I've never shown my work to anyone. I write it all for myself and I'm not interested in showing it…

— Kunal Kapoor