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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 thing
about 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

i just want to be honest about my feelings without destroying everything. — AVA.

I think it's beautiful
the way you sparkle
when you talk about
the things you love. — Atticus Poetry

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

You can't write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen. — Bertolt Brecht

One cannot write poems about trees when the forest is full of police. — Bertolt Brecht

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

Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them. — John Barton

the hope is small
but it is everything. — AVA.

Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself — Philip Larkin

I'd like to think ... that people in pubs would talk about my poems — 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

I don't know if you or I exist, but somewhere there are poems about us. — Linh Dinh

Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady. — Thom Gunn

The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body. — David Whyte

I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them. — Mary Oliver

You fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought ... — John Geddes

I suppose I have written novels to find out what I thought about something and poems to find out what I felt about something. — May Sarton

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 something
about 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

I heard the breeze whisper your name to the trees. And the flowers giggled smiling at the leaves. I and my loneliness keep talking about you. — Avijeet Das

Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers. — Dejan Stojanovic

It's not easy to write a poem about a poem. — Dejan Stojanovic

When I am asked
how I began writing poems,
I talk about the indifference of nature. — Lisel Mueller

I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems. — John C. Hawkes

I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand. — David Antin

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

I could write novels about her forever. Maybe when I die I will end up in the poem with her writing more poems about our times together.' The Diary — Jeremy Limn

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

I'm always glad that other people are way smarter about my poems than I am. — Shane McCrae

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

Of everything
I have ever endured,

Y
O
U

are
My Favourite Tragedy. — Meraaqi

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 women
those 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

One hundred copies? Of these poems you do not even like?" asked the Roman. "They're nasty bits about famous people; everyone will want them. — Karen Essex

The lives and deaths of characters in stories and poems, however tragic, help us to learn about the world and - if we are brave enough - to change it. — Nicola Morgan

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

I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy. — Nikki Giovanni

It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at the time. — Philip Dunne