Age Quote by Sharon Olds

Poems, to me, do not come from ideas, they come from a series of images that you tuck away in the back of your…

— Carolyn Kizer

Poems are a dance of language that comes out when my body taps into the rhythm of language. Rhythm gets us naked and exposes…

— Kim Hyesoon

There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.

— Peter Davison

I don't like poems that invent memories, I have enough of my own.

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

Poems are ways of saying you clearly remember the day of your death and your tomb. When I am writing poetry, I relive my…

— Kim Hyesoon

I would say there are different kinds of poems. There are things that poets in the history of poetry hit upon when they're very…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of…

— Bayard Taylor

Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't yet in…

— Diane Ackerman

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.

— Adrienne Rich

Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. Also,…

— Mary Oliver

Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing.

— Lucille Clifton

“A poem was a box for your soul. That was the point. It was the place where you could save bits of yourself, and…

— Andrea Ashworth