Able Quote by Sylvia Plath

I would say everything should be able to come into a poem, but I can't put toothbrushes into a poem, I really can't!

— Sylvia Plath

I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work.

— Joy Harjo

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

— Sara Genn

A poem can use anything to talk about anything.

— Jane Hirshfield

I always feel that whatever isn't necessary shouldn't be in a poem.

— Mary Oliver

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

— Mark Strand

I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.

— Martin Gore

I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and…

— Alice Walker

Its not easy to write a poem about a poem.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

— Charles Bukowski

There are poems inside of you that paper can’t handle.

— Yz

Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.

— James Dickey