People called me Cilla when I was little because I was always singing and writing poems. — Nicola Roberts Copy Share Image
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Remember, a stranger once told you that the breeze here is something worth writing poems about.” — Shinji Moon Copy Share Image
Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Actually, my first literary heroes were the Romantic poets, so I began to get serious by writing poems. I have notebooks full… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
A lot of my activity in the theatre, and even in writing poems, was a kind of retrospective aggro on the English… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
I've got to have something. I want to stop it all, the whole monumental grotesque joke, before it's too late. But writing… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
I started writing poems on a Xanga page. I always loved writing. I also had a Deviant Art page, actually, because my… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
“And there was no entertainment for them at night. They were too poor to own a television set. But they seemed content.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“I wish I had eyes that changed colors from blue to gray, and then after I cried, to all the colors of… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I think the occupation of my poetry is akin to this desire to be many things at once - things that sometimes… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
“Loving humans means writing poems & songs novels & plays, slogans, chants & protest signs our critics want to stone us for… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I've been writing poems since I was in the Navy - to Rosalynn. I found I could say things in poems that… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I'm working on poems about work, I guess. Or related to work. Which sounds dull as drywall but I'm having great fun… — Randall Mann Copy Share Image
Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
“So while I drove my little and planned his fantasy night of how I was going to give Otter the key to… — T.J. Klune Copy Share Image
My colleagues knew I was writing poems. I never hid it from them. I don't think they ever thought I was cheating… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What does it mean to be a used white wife, a mother, a tragic girl writing poems? Sandra Simonds gets into these… — Juliana Spahr Copy Share Image
“What I would say is this: writing poems doesn't make you a poet. … It is only with poetry, for some reason,… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
My own personal task is not simply that of poet and writer (still less commentator, pseudo-prophet); it is basically to praise God… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It is no use thinking that writing of poems - the actual writing - can accommodate itself to a social setting, even… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“When I said I wasn’t with another girl the January after we fell in love for the 3rd time, it’s because it… — Jon Sands Copy Share Image
“For Jenn At 12 years old I started bleeding with the moon and beating up boys who dreamed of becoming astronauts. I… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
“Possibilities I prefer movies. I prefer cats. I prefer the oaks along the Warta. I prefer Dickens to Dostoyevsky. I prefer myself… — wislawa szymborska Copy Share Image
“All their lovers' talk began with the phrase "After the war". After the war, when we're married, shall we live in Italy?… — Louis de Bernières Copy Share Image
“i've been reading whitman, you know what he says, cheer up slaves, and horrify foreign despots, he means that's the attitude for… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I caution against communication because once language exist only to convey information, it is dying. In news articles the relation of the… — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
“Writing is not always a priority. . . .I only write those things that are necessary for me to write. I love… — Tony Leuzzi Copy Share Image
“At night, a few lights marked port and starboard of these gargantuan industrial forms, and I filled them with loneliness. I listened… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
