Keys Quote by Shane McCrae

I like it when poems are challenging, when they concern matters important and personal to the author.

— Cate Marvin

Sometimes I start with lyrics - rarely - but sometimes I might have an idea for some lyrics that I wanna say. I write…

— Leon Bridges

I often think of a poem as a door that opens into a room where I want to go.

— Minnie Bruce Pratt

I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.

— Nell Freudenberger

I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave.

— Dylan Thomas

I write short phrases and used to think they were poems!

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

— John Ashbery

These days, if you happen to be a poet you have to sing your words to get your ideas out.

— Sara Genn

I like to use research to enlarge the poem. And sometimes a rhetorical or syntactical gesture stitches the poem along.

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

I usually start with a title or maybe a little rhyme or phrase.

— Harlan Howard

Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way…

— Rita Dove

I remember in school - in elementary school - I used to recite poems. We'd have to recite poems. And I would always just,…

— Cecile McLorin Salvant