I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.
Carol Ann Duffy
Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise.
Douglas Dunn
A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.
A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.
Bob Dylan
The way to praise a poet is to write a poem.
Paul Engle
A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one proceeds... →
James Fenton
Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?
Dorothy Fields
Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.
Conrad Hall
I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.
Jim Harrison
I feel like I am in the service of the poem. The poem isn't something I make. The poem is something I serve.
Jane Hirshfield