Poetry is no rocket science, a good poet writes from his…

“Ladies and gentlemen, I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work - a life's work…

— William Faulkner

“Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no…

— William Faulkner

Life is but one continual course of instruction. The hand of the parent writes on the heart of the child the first faint characters…

— Paul R. Hill

Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.

— Washington Irving

“[T]he young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good…

— William Faulkner

No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh, the hackneyed…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Nas is an artist who writes from his heart.

— Steve Stoute

If a poet writes to save his soul, he may save the soul of others.

— Richard Eberhart

Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.

— Yehuda Amichai

“The poet writes the history of his own body.”

— Henry David Thoreau

An English poet writes, I think, just for people who are interested in poetry. An American poet writes, and feels that everyone ought to…

— Stephen Spender

A poet writes his words into breath the oxygen moulds a relentless force stronger than death.

— Jeremy Limn

The poet who writes "free" verse is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island: he must do all his cooking, laundry and darning for…

— W. H. Auden

“Whether if you're a beginner poet or an experienced poet, poets just as other writers would like to have more readers enjoy their work.…

— Reynaldo Casison

“A genuine poet is one who writes about experiences before they happen to him.”

— T.S Eliot