Things that I have a hard time being able to fully grasp, sometimes writing the poem helps me work through it. Or… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Even if you're a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you're still in the world - although I guess being… — Abel Ferrara Copy Share Image
Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
When I'm assembling a book I concentrate as though I were writing a poem. A truly imagined arrangement will indicate gaps and… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Usually form seems to find me in the process of writing a poem, though I have nothing against starting out with the… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Poems are not easy to start, and they're not easy to finish. There's a great pleasure in - I wouldn't say ease,… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
As you continue writing and rewriting, you begin to see possibilities you hadn't seen before. Writing a poem is always a process… — Robert Hayden Copy Share Image
Entering into writing a poem is an emotional endeavor for me as well as a spiritual and creative one. Having to write… — Richard Blanco Copy Share Image
I think that poetry is an act of celebration, that anytime you're writing a poem, it means that you're celebrating something, even… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“Really, science is wonderful, but why does it tend to suck all the joyous mystery from the world? Love may be nothing… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
There is all this stuff about how sensitive poets are and how in touch with feelings, etc. they are, but really all… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
I remember that as I was writing a poem on 'Snow' when I was eight, I said aloud, 'I wish I could… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I stop writing the poem to fold the clothes. No matter who lives or who dies, I'm still a woman. I'll always… — Tess Gallagher Copy Share Image
When you're really caught up in writing a poem, it can be a form of prayer. I'm not very good at praying,… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
I think all writing is about writing. All writing is a way of going out and exploring the world, of examining the… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
When I start writing a poem, I can usually know quite early on whether it's a lineated or prose poem, but I… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
When I feel something very intensely or deeply or personally, I can go to extremes of self-expression or self-analysis by writing a… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Imagine writing a poem with a sweating, worried-looking boy handing you a different pencil at the end of every word. My golf,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Writing a poem is a lesson in the truest empathy. And to truly have empathy is to truly know power, or at… — Zachary Schomburg Copy Share Image
The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading… — Marvin Bell Copy Share Image
She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don't have to rhyme, they must be… — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
At the very beginning when I begin writing a poem I try not to think of the audience or anyone at all… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
One of my greatest joys is poetry. I read it almost every day, and I've even taken a stab at writing some… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
Working with artists and other poets has made me aware that there was a bigger "me" that I hadn't been quite aware… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
There's a lot of rage in my head. I like the friction that means there is nothing relaxing about writing a poem.… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
Sometimes the only way I know how to work through something is by writing a poem. And sometimes I get to the… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
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