Writing Poetry Quotes

Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to say that writing poetry after Auschwitz is impossible.

...after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door.

I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

The first song I wrote was called "You" and it was a love song about somebody who didn't even exist. I remember them all because I used to always write terrible poetry. I keep all my notebooks.

I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry.

The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.

But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.

Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.

The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky sentence, I try to write up to the poetry that I have recited beforehand.

I’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!

You have to have been in love to write poetry.

I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.

I don't write toward a genre, and I try not to make claim to a genre after a book is published. That said, The Guardians isn't poetry. It's prose.

If I knew how to say it directly, I would not need to write poetry. I would just talk to people and be happy.

one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be true in prose.

Writing poetry is a state of free float.

I've been writing songs since I was like six or seven. I've been writing poetry and short stories and stuff, but my first serious, serious song, I wrote when I was fourteen.

The kind of poetry I write, lyric poetry, I think is really concerned with intimacy, with mystery. That needn't be religious mystery, there are mysteries to do with everyday life.

I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn't believe the poems I'd bring in were mine because they were dark and sad. But I wrote about what I experienced in my childhood.

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.

I got a bit obsessed with the whole English language and was writing journals and poetry. I've always been intrigued about psychology and philosophy and how people's minds work.

Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.

When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.

Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it....Like some animal.

One cannot simply decide to write apolitical poetry, in the way one decides to drink lemonade instead of tea, it's far more subliminal than that.

It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!

An English poet writes, I think, just for people who are interested in poetry. An American poet writes, and feels that everyone ought to appreciate this. Then he has a deep sense of grievance . . .

I've been writing fiction as long as I've been writing poetry. It's just that the poetry took off, and it took me a lot longer to figure out how to write a story.

Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.

I think the culture can absorb so many people writing poetry and trying to earn their living in poetry.

I began writing poetry when I was about 10. Bad poetry, but you start with bad poetry.

I'm an actress, primarily. I love to write poetry. I've been writing poetry since I was 12 years old.

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.

I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.

I've always just liked writing poetry, but it's much later that I've discovered that there's this whole poetry world out there, that you almost have to be accepted into, like this little club.

Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.

I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier than writing poetry. So maybe my brain clings to it.

What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.

Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.

It's hot tonight and half the neighborhood is drunk. the other half is dead. if I have any advice about writing poetry it's - don't. I'm going to send out for some fried chicken.

One of the ways in which I feel close to God is writing poetry.

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry.

Now, the process of writing poetry is very messy. Not systematic, never quite the same

Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions in terms of word choice, plot, etc.

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in forms that were safe to hold what I felt.