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Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.

Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.

Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.

All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.

The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.