It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.

We can’t say why we search, except that there seems to be an innate need, in each human being, to know who one is,…

— William Segal

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

“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

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

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

“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

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— Jennette McCurdy

“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

“You two should get some help. You're poetically disadvantaged.”

— Kierin Meehan

Everything I do has to be poetically done.

— Raheem DeVaughn