“The writing of the poetry is natural. It's the feeling of being connected to someone which moves the pen...” — Jr. Lily Copy Share Image
Herman has taken to writing poetry. You need not tell anyone, for you know how such things get around. — Elizabeth Shaw Melville Copy Share Image
For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry. — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
“She had a habit of walking around in white cotton panties and writing poetry on the back of crumpled envelopes.” — Michael Faudet Copy Share Image
I have been writing poetry ever since I was in high school. My poetry mainly concerned the theme of love. And that,… — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career. — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in… — Grace Cavalieri Copy Share Image
“Fruition- Think of writing as a harvest. You till the ground. Plant. Water. Wait. Apple trees take years to bear fruit. Harvest.… — Keelie Breanna Copy Share Image
But if a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer "writer" for fear that he may go on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We will read books together inside the blanket and stay warm. And keep writing poetry in our respective journals. Time will fly… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“ 'We're not... we haven't been writing poetry and sprinkling rose petals and tripping hand in hand under rainbows, Kay.' 'Just because… — Kim Fielding Copy Share Image
I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
But I think for me, writing poetry when I was younger really helped me to condense an idea or a story into… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
My father died and left me his blessing and his business. His blessing brought no money into my pocket, and as to… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I was inspired by what students have done in some schools organizing walkouts protesting the lack of funding and that sort of… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We're running into a lot of new problems today because of what we emphasize in this culture. The word 'success' to the… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
“Let the trees be consulted before you take any action every time you breathe in thank a tree let tree roots crack… — John Wright Copy Share Image
I don't think I ever had a morning where I woke up and said I'm going to be a professional poet. I… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“Write a haiku of your problem Can you express your problem in a different and creative way, for example, with a poem?… — Kim Chamberlain Copy Share Image
The real you is still a little child who never grew up. Sometimes that little child comes out when you are having… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was a very creative child. I played the saxophone and piano, and I was always writing poetry and stories, or drawing… — Kali Uchis Copy Share Image
It would be inappropiate, undignified, at 38, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour or intensity of a 22 year… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I'm an actress, primarily. I love to write poetry. I've been writing poetry since I was 12 years old. — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
“Writing poetry felt silly, not practical. It was poetry. I wasn't exploring space here. But it felt necessary to me.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
When I'm writing poetry, 99.9% of my writing begins in English. I spent most of my life in English, although I am bilingual. — Pat Mora Copy Share Image
I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986. — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
...after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Poetry can have varied and useful functions; and seduction is apparently something worth writing poetry for.” — Shira Wolosky Copy Share Image
Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Baudelaire's L'Héautontimorouménos was long seen to be a sexual sadomasochistic poem, it is now generally accepted that the poem is about writing… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
Queen Latifah was writing poetry. Maybe Latifah's 'Ladies First' and Angelou's 'Phenomenal Woman' are the same thing, a generation apart. — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Writing poetry is about learning to pare down the poem to the most essential words. Every word used has to be crucial… — Harley King Copy Share Image
Now, the process of writing poetry is very messy. Not systematic, never quite the same — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“Dear Hands, I get it. You like writing poetry. But you can’t bring a metaphor to a gunfight.” — Rudy Francisco Copy Share Image
