I started writing poetry when I was in the fifth grade, just rhyming in class. — Jay Rock Copy Share Image
For me, fun is being with people I trust and love... and writing poetry. — Kunal Kapoor 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
Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions… — Emily Susan Rapp 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
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
“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
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
I think the culture can absorb so many people writing poetry and trying to earn their living in poetry. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I was quiet, and I was artistic. I liked writing poetry, and that was very strange, so I was bullied a lot. — Nelsan Ellis 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 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
In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
I didn't come in and say: "I'm a singer." I came into the band as a second guitar player and a vocalist,… — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
I really like writing poetry and lyrics because it's one thing where I give up control. I don't feel like I need… — Alissa White-Gluz Copy Share Image
I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry -- if they want to be successful, they need to learn… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“Falling in love like that? Writing poetry, crying at pop songs? Dragging people into photo-booths, taking a while day to make a… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Poets are excellent students of blizzards and salt and broken statuary, but they are always elsewhere for the test. Any intention in… — Dean Young Copy Share Image
I would not recommend poetry as a career. In the first place, it's impossible in this time and place - in this… — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to learn how… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“admitted Walter. "Then the girls came in and Nan put cayenne pepper in it—and that made it worse—Di made me hold a… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“I do think free will is sewn into everything we do; you can't cross a street, light a cigarette, drop saccharine in… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
I guess I started writing poetry and stuff and then decided to set it to music. — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry. — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“Writing poetry is like having sex with the universe and the language is just a condom.” — TRIPURARI Copy Share Image
Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
