Answers Quote by Vivek Shraya

I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.

— Jane Campion

I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.

— Margaret Atwood

I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in the nature…

— Andrew Motion

There's a level at which, if you take poetry seriously, the focus it involves... that never goes away.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.

— Mark Strand

“Robert Frost didn’t like to explain his poems—and for good reason: to explain a poem is to suck the air from its lungs. This…

— Tony Leuzzi

Poetry connects you to yourself, to the self that doesn't know how to talk or negotiate.

— Rita Dove

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

— Tom Wesselmann

I'm not a poet. I'm not up onstage to get something off my chest. I'm making musical statements, or, most of the time, musical…

— Mike Patton

To me, poetry is a rational act. I never write a poem if I'm not sure what I am going to say or what…

— Luljeta Lleshanaku

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way

— Isaac Rosenberg

My responsibility as a poet, as an artist, is to not look away.

— Nikky Finney