Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.
Thom Gunn

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.
Robert Penn Warren

However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition.
Helen Dunmore

I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last.
Leslie Fiedler

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

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
Irving Layton

I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.
Tahar Ben Jelloun

I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.
Philip Larkin

I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.
James Broughton

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 don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
Robert Penn Warren

I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his letters were lovely. And the poems he wrote me were lovely. I used some of them in my book.
Fay Wray

I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.
Martin Gore

I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.
Jim Harrison

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

I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us.
Helen Dunmore

I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
Jack Prelutsky

I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.
Gregory Harrison

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.
Ringo Starr

I like poems that are complex.
Peter Davison