Poetry Quote by Sharon Olds

I found the poems in the fields And only wrote them down

— John Clare

I guess that would have been 1968. I was a freshman in college and I wasn't writing good poems, but I was at least…

— Edward Hirsch

“A month alone behind closed doors forgotten books, remembered, clear again. Poems come, like water to the pool Welling, up and out, from perfect…

— Yuan Mei

One of the most treasured books that I own is Donald Allen's 'The New American Poetry, 1945-1960.' It was a totem of great importance…

— Peter Coyote

When you find it you become the secret addressee of a literary text and I felt that their reader had been left out of…

— Edward Hirsch

Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had…

— Robert Adamson

We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by…

— Robert Morgan

I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.

— Taslima Nasrin

Amy Winehouse and Paul Weller are examples of poets, I think.

— Jools Holland

I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn't come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked off…

— Lucille Clifton

I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual…

— Eavan Boland

I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.

— Norman MacCaig