What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.
Sherman Alexie
When I was 3, I recited a poem at a festival in Passaic, New Jersey. The applause was tremendous, and it hit me that I could affect people positively... →
Nina Arianda
I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.
Beck
The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.
Peter Davison
For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.
Rita Dove
I make a discovery in a poem as I write it.
I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem.
Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.
John Drinkwater
It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say.
David Duchovny
The long poem cannot be a digressive, expansive, boring exposition. It is really made of very sharp, Imagistic, quintessential poetic elements.
Louis Dudek