The ear writes my poems, not the mind.

The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.

— Peter Davison

I didn't sit down then and start writing poems, but it was in the back of my mind.

— Edward Hirsch

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

— Anne Stevenson

If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?

— Jennifer Weiner

Maybe you're one of those people who writes poems, but rarely reads them. Let me put this as delicately as I can: If you…

— Kim Addonizio

Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be…

— Andrew Motion

“There is a girl who still writes you; she doesn’t know how not to.”

— Sarah Kay

“Transformations All night he ran, his body air, But that was in another year. Lately the answered shape of his laughter, The shape of…

— Stanley Kunitz

“A writer lives, at least, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies…

— William Sansom

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of…

— Harper Lee

He writes nothing whose writings are not read.

— Martial

You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that... there is a limit to…

— John Bolton

“I think the wilderness is where things happen and no one writes about them. It is the place where there are no maps, no…

— J.M. McDermott

In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: 'No, no, no. You have to write…

— Isabel Allende

I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

— Stephen Adly Guirgis