Even famous poets such as Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams were rarely asked to read their poems.

- Donald Hall

A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And this is the reason for the fragmentary character of those poems.

- George Oppen

I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume.

- Grazia Deledda

There are a lot of poems where I am questing for God. I don't think there is any finding of God.

- Edward Hirsch

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.

- Edward Hirsch

I like the machinery of poems, especially when they have human warmth.

- Edward Hirsch

I believe in rooting poems in actual places, even if you move into some other extraordinary realm.

- Edward Hirsch

I've always thought my poems told stories.

- Douglas Dunn

For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.

- Dana Goodyear

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

I write poems like some people sing in the bathroom.

- Amit Bhatia

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.

- Carol Ann Duffy

By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.

- Brian Ferneyhough

I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy.

- Billy Sherwood

I first came across 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' in college, with other anthologized poems by Yeats.

- Billy Collins

I think my poems are slightly underrated by the word 'accessible.'

- Billy Collins

No, I don't know any Emily Dickinson poems!

- Andy Richter

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 want to write poems which are very emotional, but I would have some hesitation in saying I want to write poems which are sentimental.

- Andrew Motion

But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.

- Andrew Motion