Writing Poems Quotes
Writing Poems Quote of the day
I'm going to spend my life writing poems, turning them into music that will affect people and touch their hearts. I'm going to write the songs that people can't write for themselves.
When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country you can't reach.
I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.
Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.
I've got to have something. I want to stop it all, the whole monumental grotesque joke, before it's too late. But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.
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.
Actually, my first literary heroes were the Romantic poets, so I began to get serious by writing poems. I have notebooks full of them that I cherish but am afraid to look at.
I'm not religious. I love what Clive James said the other day. James is a brilliant writer, but he keeps on writing poems on stuff. And he said, "God doesn't have a leg to stand on."
A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what subjects it should address.
The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.
There is a specific kind of day when I feel like writing poems. My senses become really sharp. This day is when I feel as if I am drowning into the abandonment of death.
For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole. For grownups: I'm writing poems.
She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight.
My days are filled with work I love - reading poems, writing poems, talking with people about poems, teaching, directing a writing program, hosting readings, etc.
One of the remarkable things about love is that, despite very irritating people writing poems and songs about how pleasant it is, it really is quite pleasant.
I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.
I only wrote prose before I met you. My musings were superfluous and serious as well. But now the words dance with me. I sing with them and we create poetry.
This poem was meant to be unwritten. But I am writing it now and have thereby changed destiny.
