Chance Quote by Tracy K. Smith

I want the poem to be an experience - for both the listener and for myself.

— Anne Waldman

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.

— Sherman Alexie

A poem is the realization of love. . . .

— Rene Char

“The poem finds the word that finds the feeling.”

— Jeanette Winterson

What I desire of a poem is a clear understanding of motive, and a just evaluation of feeling A poem in the first place…

— Yvor Winters

We all need poetry. The moments in our lives that are characterized by language that has to do with necessity or the market, or…

— Tracy K. Smith

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 might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

— Anne Stevenson

“Poetry is when emotion blooms like flowers with the petals of words and spreads the fragrance of perception.”

— Debasish Mridha

When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.

— Mario Benedetti

Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.

— Muriel Rukeyser