I write, but I don't write poetry. I don't rhyme or anything like that. — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it. — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters. — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
When I first started to write poetry, I used to feel as if my tongue would go numb. — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
When you write poetry you are always addressing the world somehow. — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
Yes, I do write poetry. It's very therapeutic. I'm influenced by Pablo Neruda and Gulzar Saab. It's all very personal. — Vivek Oberoi Copy Share Image
think what you hope for is that at different times of your life you're able to write the poetry that reflects the… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Write poetry as if you were in love. If you are always in love you will not always write the same poem,… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All musicians should write poetry or at least read it if they want to improve their game. Except for people who believe… — David Berman Copy Share Image
I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well. — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
My life's purpose is to write poetry - but behind the poetry must be the vision of a fresh revelation for men. — William Soutar Copy Share Image
To write poetry, like sincere poetry, it is like performing heart surgery on yourself without anesthesia...in public...You are peeling back layers. You… — Amir Sulaiman Copy Share Image
I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry... I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“You write poetry?" Klaus asked. He had read a lot about poets but had never met one. "Just a little bit," Isadora… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
I would like to try to write poetry that would do everything I wanted poems to do, but also be readable by… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“I write poetry not for publication but merely to kill time. Airplanes are a good place to write poetry and then throw… — Irish" Wayne Kelly Copy Share Image
I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don't mean that everyone can… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“I can't write poetry like you, but I can talk with nature... And when I come back... we put our beds side… — Bettina Brentano Copy Share Image
“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.… — N.H. Kleinbaum Copy Share Image
“When I write poetry, I’ll write it down, or a tiny bit of it, and then have to depend on the reader… — William Anderson Copy Share Image
I've never been able to write poetry without having vast tracts of dead time. Poetry requires a certain kind of disciplined indolence… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“When you write poetry honestly, and when you read it honestly, then you become an individual and build up a defense against… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
The question does arise if how and why to write poetry in this time. It feels both completely essential and also quite… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
One day while studying a Yeats poem I decided to write poetry the rest of my life. I recognized that a single… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
“We don't read and write poetry because it is cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human… — Tom Schulman Copy Share Image
I guess the quality that makes one write poetry keeps one from selling it. — Louise Closser Hale Copy Share Image
“On the contrary I am not a poet, I am just a writer who happens to write poetry.” — Kenneth G. Ortiz Copy Share Image