I have no talent. I write poems for myself, to think…

I would write poems and think up melodies to them later.

— Jennette McCurdy

[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…

— Nikki Giovanni

My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness or absurdity.

— Hayden Carruth

I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized…

— Stephen King

“This must be what feelings are. This is why people write poems! I get it now. I get it, and I want more.”

— Laini Taylor

I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.

— May Sarton

He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We all write…

— John Fowles

I find it hard to write poems in reaction to world/national events unless there's a way in that's so evident to me that I…

— Allison Joseph

I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy.

— Billy Sherwood

“When people ask me what I do for a living, I tell them I write poems. And then they say: 'No, what do you…

— Mike Algera

“I write poems to save myself, to preserve in ink memories of me long after my soul has dissolved and my bones melted, joined…

— Ayokunle Falomo

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

— Marcus Aurelius

I write poems like some people sing in the bathroom.

— Amit Bhatia

I used to write poems more when I was younger, but I haven't in a long time. I just write ideas and paragraphs and…

— Kacey Musgraves

I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in the nature…

— Andrew Motion