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I had written here and there about my mother in my poems. There are poems for her in my first and second books.
— Tracy K. Smith
The beautiful thingabout young love
is the truth
in our hearts
that it will last forever. — Atticus Poetry
When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
— Langston Hughes
It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.
— Howard Nemerov
When you put a book together and arrange it, there's a lot of anxiety and turmoil about what order the poems should be in.
— Billy Collins
Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself
— Philip Larkin
The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when I wrote them as a young man.
— Linton Kwesi Johnson
There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men.
— Germaine Greer
The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.
— David Whyte
I'm much more capable of cutting back than of expanding. I've gotten very surgical about poems.
— Joan Larkin
Rod McKuen. One of his poems says somethingabout it not mattering who you love but the important thing is that you love, — Carolyn Brown
I'm sorry for the poems.All the shouting I did about your mouth. — Trista Mateer
Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers.
— Dejan Stojanovic
It's not easy to write a poem about a poem.
— Dejan Stojanovic
I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems.
— John C. Hawkes
Reading about the response of people in stories, plays, poems, helps us to respond more courageously and openly at our own moments of turning.
— Madeleine L'Engle
There are no honest poems about dead women.
— Audre Lorde
My poems are always about my life in one way or another.
— Jonathan Galassi
The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.
— Billy Collins
Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.
— Jack Nicholson
Remember,a stranger once told you that the breeze
here is something worth writing poems about. — Shinji Moon
you and the poems have a lot to talk about.
— Nayyirah Waheed
Poems can't help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record of my daily life.
— Matthea Harvey
Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.
— Ellen J. Barrier
There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.
— Caroline Kennedy
There's two kinds of womenthose you write poems about and those you don't. — Jeffrey McDaniel
I started to think about the abyss that separates the poet from the reader and the next thing I knew I was deeply depressed.
— Roberto Bolano
after midnight Just words.
No more pictures. No charts or plays or poems.
Now it's just about the words. — Andrew Smith
The trauma said, 'Don't write these poems.Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. — Andrea Gibson
For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole. For grownups: I'm writing poems.
— Kate DiCamillo
I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13.
— Kevin Powers
As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store.
— William H Gass
Poems don't have to rhyme. Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings.
— Nikki Giovanni
We write about love like we should be bound in padded rooms.
— Kevin Fuller
