Berries Quote by Yevgeny Yevtushenko

I like the machinery of poems, especially when they have human warmth.

— Edward Hirsch

I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it…

— Mark Haddon

Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?

— George Crabbe

I like poems that are complex.

— Peter Davison

Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet…

— Boris Pasternak

Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat.

— Osbert Sitwell

Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent…

— Sarah Kay

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

— John Ashbery

A good poem is like a bouillon cube. It's concentrated and it nourishes you when you need it.

— Rita Dove

Poems are a dance of language that comes out when my body taps into the rhythm of language. Rhythm gets us naked and exposes…

— Kim Hyesoon

I also like poems that are haunted by a structure or a narrative, or poems that frisk flirtatiously at the boundary of sense.

— Matthea Harvey

I like poems that immediately claim my attention, instead of taking my attention for granted. At first read, I want to feel compelled to…

— James Arthur