He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write…

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

— Anonymous

“She lives in the poetry she cannot write.”

— Oscar Wilde

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

— Oscar Wilde

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

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

Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

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

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

I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.

— Irrfan Khan

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

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

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

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

“If you yourself paint or write poetry perhaps, you'll know how it feels to want to produce something ad be frustrated; your mind sulks…

— Kenneth Lillington