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What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.
— Sherman Alexie
And what I've found over time is that for me to write a poem that I think is worthy that I can live with, two things have to happen.
— Edward Hirsch
For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
— Robert Penn Warren
I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.
— Denise Levertov
To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative.
— Nicholas Mosley
A perfect poem you can't pin down and say, 'This is exactly what it meant to me.' It's not a self-help manual.
— Alice McDermott
A poem is what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text and experiences as relevant to the text.
— Louise Rosenblatt
What is a poem, if not a toy mouse viewed from an angle that makes it appear to take over the world? Lee
— Nell Zink
What we eat is a poem.
— Anthony Doerr
Poetry is another name for a person's telling of the self, existence and what is beyond, and one's own perceptions.
— M. Fethullah Gulen
It is dishonest to give me a poem and pretend to want my opinion when what you really want are reasons to live.
— Deborah Levy
A well crafted life is like a good poem. What is left out tells others every bit as much about you as what is added in.
— Eric Vance Walton
It is never what a poem says that matters, but what it is.
— I. A. Richards
What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them.
— Octavio Paz
Ladies, when you write a poem for Feminism because that is what we sometimes do, remember that it's never about them. It's only about you.
— Danielle Valenilla
you'll find the buildings taller, thatthe halls are full of ghosts
but everything still here is
what you remember most — Savannah Brown
there are only so many thingsthat you can fix with your hands.
...What they don't realize is I am not a thing to fix. — Danabelle Gutierrez
A poem often begins in the midst of wonderful wandering thoughts that are eager to open wings to fly in the beautiful blue sky of imagination.
— Debasish Mridha
A poem is a painting with imagery and words; a painting is a poem of color on a reflecting mirror.
— Debasish Mridha
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
— Harold Bloom
The only thing you can really say in a poem is what you really, really deeply believe.
— Jonathan Galassi
For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors.
— Walter Benjamin
What is the point of teaching how to analyse a poem or a piece of Shakespeare but not to analyse the Internet?
— Beeban Kidron
You are a poem--and that is to be the best part of a poet--what makes up thepoet's consciousness in his best moods. — George Eliot
what is a journeywithout someone who wanders
if sometimes a pair
is made of two — Lori Jenessa Nelson