“We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.”– Jack Prelutsky Related Quotes “There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.”– Thom Gunn “I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson’s poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.”– Gordon Getty “How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.”– Robert Penn Warren