Sometimes you finish the poem, and that last piece clicks in place. Sometimes the poem is finished with you.

- Frederick Seidel

I like poems that are daggers that sing. I like poems that for all the power of the sentiments expressed, and all the power to upset and offend, are …

- Frederick Seidel

I like to hear the sound of form, and I like to hear the sound of it breaking.

- Frederick Seidel

You need a danger to be safe in.

- Frederick Seidel

I was left with myself and had to do the one thing I could to survive. I knew it would be difficult to write, very difficult, but I set about doing i…

- Frederick Seidel

Write beautifully what people don’t want to hear.

- Frederick Seidel

I like poems that are daggers that sing.

- Frederick Seidel