Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
...the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry... — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention. — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
“I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to conclusions. — Chrisette Michele Copy Share Image
“What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Before you ridicule, remember somebody on a railway platform who seems to be train spotting may actually be writing poetry. — John Hegley Copy Share Image
Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
“No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
Writing poetry, which for me was then saying how I felt about this and that, didn't help me to understand the world… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I have always been musically inclined, whether it's been playing the santoor from a young age or writing poetry that has now… — Ananya Birla Copy Share Image
“If you find yourself pulled beyond all practicality toward doing something -- writing poetry, building a business, restoring old cars, planting a… — Joan Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn't believe the poems I'd bring in were mine… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
Writing poetry, we live among the wild beasts, and when we touch a man, the stuff of someone in whom we believed,… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I approach writing a poem in a much different state than when I am writing prose. It's almost as if I were… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it;… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
I think I'm no different to my friends who are doctors or businessmen or architects - we all started watching films of… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on… — Christina Perri Copy Share Image
The whole process of having to put the thing into the world seems so antithetical to the act of writing. Poetry is… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
Suppose that throughout your childhood you were good with numbers. Other kids used to copy your homework. You figured store discounts faster… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
When I am writing poetry, I try to make my mind go a little lazy, to not think too much, as a… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
The question does arise if how and why to write poetry in this time. It feels both completely essential and also quite… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
My goals as an artist have nothing to do with speaking to an audience. I love to have a good time, but… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
Writing is a bit like walking into a big bookstore. It's the bookstore of your brain, and you know you're never going… — Mary Jo Salter Copy Share Image
'Dead Poets Society' was a very influential film on me and so talking about that movie with him, he just inspired me… — Dante Basco Copy Share Image
Composing computer programs to solve scientific problems is like writing poetry. You must choose every word with care and link it with… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
“And the dark night of flow is an issue that society has not made particularly easy to handle. How many people have… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
“There are a number of things a woman can tell about a man who is roughly twenty-nine years old, sitting in the… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“…she made a poem on it at once, the lines singing themselves through her consciousness without effort. With one side of her… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“No, this, she felt, was real life and if she wasn’t as curious or passionate as she had once been, that was… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“The discords of our experience--delight in change, fear of change; the death of the individual and the survival of the species, the… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“Imagine what you can give in these areas of the Twelve Areas of Balance: 9.YOUR CAREER. What are your visions for your… — Vishen Lakhiani Copy Share Image
“1. You most want your friends and family to see you as someone who … a. Is willing to make sacrifices and… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Whatand why were never questions for me. How was the only question. When I look back now, I realize that I never… — Sadhguru Copy Share Image
