Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing…

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

It usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

— Steven Wright

Poetry helps me understand who I am. It helps me understand the world around me. But above all, what poetry has taught me is…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

Poetry helps my soul escape its encasement.

— Maya Angelou

I think of everything that I want to say and then I think of the way that I can say it most precisely. And…

— Helen Frost

I find it very hard to talk about my relationships, whether it's a girlfriend, sister or just a friend... I can't bring myself to…

— Kunal Kapoor

I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which…

— Jesmyn Ward

“Poetry helps heal wounds. Makes them tangible.”

— Isabel Quintero

One does not read a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks with hopes that it will grant him a career in engineering; he does so because…

— Clint Smith

Myths are, in fact...neither primitive nor untrue. They are, rather, a kind of poetry that helps us make sense of the world and our…

— Stephen H. Furrer

I feel deep gratitude for the life poetry has allowed me to live. I know the life I could have lived without it. Both…

— Dorianne Laux

Taking the higher ground can be difficult, so it really helps when you can write those feelings into a song.

— Bishop Briggs

“Writer's block isn't always a problem. It can be a process of writing that helps us write better.”

— Jennifer Hudson Taylor

It helps to write as the character that I am trying to be, and try to journal every day as them. Once I've already…

— Brianna Hildebrand

It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two of them nothing can…

— Winston Churchill