Poet Quotes and aphorisms about happening Omar Khayyam Eavan Boland Louis Dudek ,, In a poem, the words happen; they just come. I let them. Otherwise, I wouldn't write. To interfere ... Gwendolyn Brooks Paul Muldoon Anne Carson ,, I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they... Helen Dunmore Floyd Skloot Octavio Paz Sophie Hannah