There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.
Robert Fitzgerald
Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things and then torn them up.
John Fuller
Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.
Seamus Heaney
It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around... →
Yusef Komunyakaa
So many poems you go into and come up empty.
Maxine Kumin
Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.
Thomas Lynch
I would write poems and think up melodies to them later.
Jennette McCurdy
I do think that all of us think in poems.
Naomi Shihab Nye
The idea is to take the most ordinary things and make them extraordinary, as Gerard Manley Hopkins does in his poems.
Alfonso A. Ossorio
I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.
Tom Paulin