You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what’s in your heart.

The remark frames poetry not as an elevated, rarefied art but as a way of noticing: a practice of attention to ordinary speech, public life, private recollection, and inner feeling. By placing “what people say on the bus” beside “the news” and “what’s in your heart,” it collapses the boundary between the public and the intimate, suggesting that poems can be made from overheard language, contemporary events, and personal emotion alike. The quote also implies an egalitarian view of poetic material—anyone’s experience and any register of language may contain lyric charge—encouraging readers and aspiring writers to treat daily life as a legitimate, even primary, source of art.