I believe in creative failing - to contine to write poems…

I want every record I make to be different to the one before - even if I fail one day.

— Rosalia

If you fail one day of a challenge DON'T use that as an excuse to give up on the entire challenge.

— Sonya Parker

As a politician, you have to deal with someone wanting you to fail every day. I think I prefer being in a situation where…

— John Legend

You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something…

— Dan O'Brien

For John was running, and this was terrible. Because if you ran, time ran. You yelled and screamed and raced and rolled and tumbled…

— Ray Bradbury

“And finally, have you trained well enough so you can say what you want to say without getting hamstrung? Have you written enough so…

— Ray Bradbury

Entering into writing a poem is an emotional endeavor for me as well as a spiritual and creative one. Having to write those poems…

— Richard Blanco

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

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

— Anne Stevenson

I never intended to write poems, nor to be a photographer, nor to be a film-maker. I just took many, many pictures and I…

— Abbas Kiarostami

I don't want to write poems that are just really clear about how I'm aware of all the traps involved in writing poetry; I…

— Ben Lerner

“but take away his poems and what does he have left? He wants to write more poems, enough to fill half the world.”

— Nachoem M Wijnberg

“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.”

— J.D. Salinger

It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had…

— Yusef Komunyakaa