It's hot tonight and half the neighborhood is drunk. the other half is dead. if I have any advice about writing poetry… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
To think of writing poetry as a "career" is not only ridiculous, it's dangerous. To the imagination. To the way one thinks… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In the writing of poetry we never know anything for sure. We will never know if we have 'trained' or 'practised' enough.… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time. ... Women, then, have not… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I don't want to write poems that are just really clear about how I'm aware of all the traps involved in writing… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“My writing, it’s my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“Good God, Enrique was writing poetry to her? Yes, and why hadn’t he thought of poetry? Besides the obvious reason of his… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
The laureateship [of U.S. Children's Poet] has brought me a couple of appealing contracts, including my first anthology, the 200-poem The National… — J. Patrick Lewis Copy Share Image
Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the… — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The whole point of writing poetry or fiction is that you get to agonize over whatever it is you want to say,… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
I live a very quiet life well under the radar and I drive a tiny car, own a cottage, that's about it.… — Brenda Fricker Copy Share Image
Just getting something to work usually means writing reams of code fast, like a Stephen King novel, but making it maintainable and… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
The Christopher Robin who appears in so many of the poems is not always me. This was where my name, so totally… — Christopher Robin Milne Copy Share Image
“What’s the use of writing poetry for your peers? I don’t think I should sell my poetry to other poets. If that’s… — Harley King Copy Share Image
Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
“I once tried hawking my own book around the pubs in the hope that, like the Salvation Army, I too could sell… — Peter Finch Copy Share Image
One good way to start writing poetry is to read all kinds of poetry: not just in order to imitate but to… — Valerie Worth Copy Share Image
I'm finding that writing poetry is strengthening my songwriting, because you're learning to make a piece of writing work on a page… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
For me, when I started writing, it was mostly poetry. And poetry is very visual. I feel the same way about the… — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
“A poet writing poetry, an artist creating calligraphy. An author scripting mastery with an encyclopedia intellect. From from a derelict's viewpoint, that… — Jr. Lily Copy Share Image
I've been transformed by stories, and I think that storytelling is definitely sacred. I take it very seriously because my life has… — Karla Souza Copy Share Image
Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them… — Lisa Marie Presley Copy Share Image
“...when a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also are inimical to poetry, he… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers -… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I began writing and became attached to writing at an early age. I began by writing poetry and experimenting with dialogues: modest… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When I came into consciousness as a writer when I was in my early 20s, I just assumed that a writer did… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
When I started writing poetry, it was always in very hip-hop influenced spaces: Someone would teach a Nas song side-by-side with a… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
I no longer feel I'll be dead by thirty; now it's sixty. I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When I started writing poetry in my senior term of high school - I was sixteen - I felt in touch with… — Gerard Malanga Copy Share Image
I've been writing songs since I was like six or seven. I've been writing poetry and short stories and stuff, but my… — Gabrielle Aplin Copy Share Image
The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours… — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
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… — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
Being able to say something lyrically, to say something that will do more than just be words, is really hard. It's easy… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
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