Writing poems Quotes

“In our time, they say there is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.”

— Muriel Rukeyser

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

— Franz Wright

“People were made of nothing so much as dust, and I couldn't see that doctoring all that dust was a bit better…

— Sylvia Plath

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

“Writing poetry's,' I looked around the solarium, but Madame Crommelynck's got a tractor beam, 'sort of . . . gay.' '"Gay"? A…

— David Mitchell

“THE HE’S ARE SHE’S In 1847, three novels excite England’s readers. Wuthering Heights by Ellis Bell tells a devastating tale of passion…

— Eduardo Galeano

“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

“Considering the ways in which so many of us waste our time, what would be wrong with a world in which everybody…

— Ted Kooser

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

— Dawn Lundy Martin

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

— Natasha Trethewey

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

— Shinji Moon

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

— Nicola Roberts

“He kisses like a poet. Like he's writing poems on my lips.”

— Veronica Rossi

I always wrote poems when I was a little girl, and I loved hip hop music, and I kind of just started…

— Chanel West Coast

“To her surprise, Madeleine found herself contemplating this proposal. Why not tell her parents everything, curl up in the backseat of the…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I came from a very musical family, so I grew up singing karaoke with the family. My family said 'do this' and…

— Cassie Steele

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

— Simone Muench

“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

“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

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

— N.T. Wright

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

— Alice Walker

I was writing poems and little freestyle raps in my notes throughout all of elementary and high school.

— Ice Spice

A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound…

— Matthea Harvey

When I began writing poems, it was in the late 60s and early 70s when the literary and cultural atmosphere was very…

— Robert Hass

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

— Tony Leuzzi