Writing Poetry Quotes

But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.

Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury!

I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose.

Poems are ways of saying you clearly remember the day of your death and your tomb. When I am writing poetry, I relive my days when a woman inside me dies many times.

Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.

A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

Through my former experiences, writing poetry and learning other languages leading up to English I find ways to stitch words together that may seem a bit odd, but somehow, sometimes they do work.

There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see.

Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.

Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something that, though it may not be for everybody, is about everybody.

I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.

Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.

They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come.

I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.

To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry.

Im looking for a guy who makes you want to dance and write poetry all day long.

He's never going to sit at my feet and write me poems, which is good because I hate poetry, except dirty ones that rhyme.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write

I didnt write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

That's a rather flippant quote "drinking and writing bad poetry" from me. I mean, I said it, but I was doing other stuff too. I certainly didn't manage the full stretch of four years.

You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch with to write poetry.

think what you hope for is that at different times of your life you're able to write the poetry that reflects the moment that you're in on your own journey.

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

The success of the poem is determined not by how much the poet felt in writing it, but by how much the reader feels in reading it.

Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.

You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.

In autumn, when the leaves are brown, Take pen and ink, and write it down.

I always hesitate to call myself a children's poet, and I always hesitate to call what I write for children poetry. Though a few of the verses that I've written, yes, I think they are truly poems.

I feel often very close to the ecstasy and anguish which lie at the very heart of poetry - I am writing a lot.

I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I have to write a script.

I've written some poetry, but...songs have to be more poetic, and I've really gotten to this non-poetic sort of writing.

The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where it fits into literature as a whole, seems to me to be manifestly daft.

[To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.

I had hoped to be a poet, and for a long time I tried to write poetry. My first published pieces were poems.

Often when I write poetry I don't quite know what I'm saying myself. I mean, I can't restate the poem. The meaning of the poem is the poem.

I do love writing prose interspersed with the poetry of other people. Their rhythms break into my prose and create a connection.

I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines.

If there is anything unique about my writing it is the way that I combine poetry and prose, not just on the level of having a poem here, prose there, but that it really is a true amalgam.

I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan.

For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.

Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.

I'm a poet who practices Zen. And it's not, I'm somebody who practices Zen who writes poetry. There's no separation for me.

Nearly everybody in San Francisco writes poetry. Few San Franciscans would admit this, but most of them would rather like to have their productions accidentally discovered.

I actually remember celebrating National Poetry Day at school; I remember having to write and read a load.

As I published books, I realized, that's not really what I want. I don't care about the books as much anymore. I just want to write poetry.

Poetry, playing with your words until you breathe life into them.

Poetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and motivates the mightiest of offices to humbly heed lessons in compassion.

Fruition-Think of writing as a harvest.You till the ground.Plant.Water.Wait.Apple trees take years to bear fruit.Harvest.Clean.Process.Then you have apple pie.