I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.

Some of the old folk singers used to phrase things in an interesting way, and then, I got my style from seeing a lot…

— Bob Dylan

My childhood was all about going to church, singing in church. And later on, after I got a little older, my mother taught me…

— Rudy Ray Moore

“She (my mother) could still recite them (the poems) in full when she was lying helpless and nearly blind, in her bed, an old…

— Eudora Welty

The kind of poetry I write, lyric poetry, I think is really concerned with intimacy, with mystery. That needn't be religious mystery, there are…

— Kevin Hart

There are three good things in this world. One is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is…

— Rupert Brooke

I used to do poetry and write stories and stuff - I never really had anybody standing over my shoulder, like, "What did you…

— Dreezy

To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.

— Mark Nepo

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

— Oscar Wilde

When I write poetry, I write in torrents. I have no interest in quality or finesse, only in quantity and waste. Scribble and discard,…

— Tim Key

Poetry is all I write, whether for books or readings or for the National Theatre or for the opera house and concert hall or…

— Tony Harrison

“She lives in the poetry she cannot write.”

— Oscar Wilde

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

— Oscar Wilde

There are only three things in the world, one is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is…

— Rupert Brooke

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression…

— Alfred Nobel

Respect the language in which you write. Be kind, develop good vocabulary, and be creative in writing beautiful sentences. Your prose should be your…

— Ruskin Bond