Inspiration Quote by Sherman Alexie

I like poems that inspire, that make us think and reflect. It's like putting love into the world for whoever picks it up.

— Peleg Top

A poem gives me a chance to have an encounter with a feeling, with an experience, with a wish, with an idea.

— Tracy K. Smith

Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem.

— Tracy K. Smith

Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my…

— Erica Jong

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

— Sylvia Plath

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

— Andrew Motion

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

— Ed Westwick

So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people…

— Ellen Bass

The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.

— Peter Davison

For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit.

— Tracy K. Smith

Poetry to me is prayer.

— Anne Sexton

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

— Donald Hall