Collections Quote by Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I never try to force poems into a collection simply because they were written/published within a certain period of time. They will eventually find…

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

— Joseph Joubert

I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of.

— Robert Frost

I prefer always to think that I am creating a book, not a series of stand-alone poems.

— Martha Ronk

I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems.

— Frederick Busch

My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.

— Helen Dunmore

Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.

— Seamus Heaney

So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd…

— Aaron Neville

I only submit the poems I think are the strongest.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“There's something narcissistic in the phrase "collected poems." Who's collecting them? The poem. How hard is that? That's not a real collection. Now if…

— Nicholson Baker

I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume.

— Grazia Deledda

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

— Joseph Joubert