Writing poems Quotes

People called me Cilla when I was little because I was always singing and writing poems.

— Nicola Roberts

But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.

— Sylvia Plath

I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.

— Anonymous

I began just writing poems and then fell in love with the form.

— Simone Muench

“Writing poems is simply an excuse to remember You.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“Remember, a stranger once told you that the breeze here is something worth writing poems about.”

— Shinji Moon

If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.

— Sherman Alexie

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

— Jack Nicholson

Actually, my first literary heroes were the Romantic poets, so I began to get serious by writing poems. I have notebooks full…

— John Dufresne

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

A lot of my activity in the theatre, and even in writing poems, was a kind of retrospective aggro on the English…

— Tony Harrison

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

She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.

— Alice Walker

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

I started writing poems on a Xanga page. I always loved writing. I also had a Deviant Art page, actually, because my…

— Jamila Woods

“And there was no entertainment for them at night. They were too poor to own a television set. But they seemed content.…

— Alice Walker

“I wish I had eyes that changed colors from blue to gray, and then after I cried, to all the colors of…

— Jarod Kintz

I think the occupation of my poetry is akin to this desire to be many things at once - things that sometimes…

— Dawn Lundy Martin

“Loving humans means writing poems & songs novels & plays, slogans, chants & protest signs our critics want to stone us for…

— Alice Walker

I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing…

— Natasha Trethewey

I've been writing poems since I was in the Navy - to Rosalynn. I found I could say things in poems that…

— Jimmy Carter

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

“What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring…

— Richard Dahlstrom

I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up…

— Gary Snyder

“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

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

What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring…

— Anonymous

What does it mean to be a used white wife, a mother, a tragic girl writing poems? Sandra Simonds gets into these…

— Juliana Spahr

“What I would say is this: writing poems doesn't make you a poet. … It is only with poetry, for some reason,…

— Franz Wright

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

It is no use thinking that writing of poems - the actual writing - can accommodate itself to a social setting, even…

— Mary Oliver

“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

“For Jenn At 12 years old I started bleeding with the moon and beating up boys who dreamed of becoming astronauts. I…

— Andrea Gibson

“Possibilities I prefer movies. I prefer cats. I prefer the oaks along the Warta. I prefer Dickens to Dostoyevsky. I prefer myself…

— wislawa szymborska

“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

“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

“I caution against communication because once language exist only to convey information, it is dying. In news articles the relation of the…

— Richard Hugo

“Writing is not always a priority. . . .I only write those things that are necessary for me to write. I love…

— Tony Leuzzi

“At night, a few lights marked port and starboard of these gargantuan industrial forms, and I filled them with loneliness. I listened…

— Anne Michaels