To me, poetry is a rational act. I never write a poem if I'm not sure what I am going to say… — Luljeta Lleshanaku Copy Share Image
Never write a poem about anything that ought to have a poem written about it. — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Every time you write a poem it’s apocalyptic. You’re revealing who you really are to yourself. — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert? — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
And what I've found over time is that for me to write a poem that I think is worthy that I can… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“and I can still write a poem (sometimes), don’t forget that, and even if they don’t pay off, it’s better than waiting… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
This quality becomes important at a time when almost everyone is a poet. And as I said, we live in an age… — Clive James Copy Share Image
If you're going to write, write one poem all your life, let nobody read it, and then burn it. This is very… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
One of the things I'm constantly telling my students is that they're never going to write a poem everyone gets, or if… — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
“I write because I die again and again at the hands of a world that cannot have me or make me fit.… — Jennifer Militello Copy Share Image
One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I'm an old man, and I want to lay out what I think I understand. With poems like "Traitor," I'm examining my… — Dan Burt Copy Share Image
If you're angry, you don't have to write a poem dealing with the cause of your anger. But it needs to be… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
A person sets out to write a poem for a variety of reasons: to win the heart of his beloved; to express… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Anyone who says, “Here’s my address, write me a poem,” deserves something in reply. So I’ll tell you a secret instead: poems… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“Often one spends weeks trying to write a poem out of the conscious mind that never comes to anything - these are… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
When you break a poem down in order to perform it, you have to engage closely with many aspects of what it's… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
“Author's Prayer If I speak for the dead, I must leave this animal of my body, I must write the same poem… — Ilya Kaminsky Copy Share Image
“Did you wish upon a star and take the time to try to make your wish come true? Did you try to… — Lora Leigh Copy Share Image
“And when you write a poem within the accepted poem-form, making it sound like a poem because a poem is a poem… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“On Being Asked to Write a Poem Against the War in Vietnam Well I have and in fact more than one and… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
“And then a man of forty or so, with a French accent, asked, "How do you achieve the presence of mind to… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“You’re not doing well and finally I don’t have to pretend to be so interested in your on going tragedy, but I’ll… — Lucas Regazzi Copy Share Image
“How to Write a Poem Catch the air around the butterfly.” — Katerina Stoykova Klemer Copy Share Image
