Since the age of 11, I have loved writing poems and fragments from my life. — Niki de St. Phalle Copy Share Image
When I am asked how I began writing poems, I talk about the indifference of nature. — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place. — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
I didn't sit down then and start writing poems, but it was in the back of my mind. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems. — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
I came from a very musical family, so I grew up singing karaoke with the family. My family said 'do this' and… — Cassie Steele Copy Share Image
The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole.… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
One of the remarkable things about love is that, despite very irritating people writing poems and songs about how pleasant it is,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even when I was in school, I was doing papers and writing poems; I always had an edge to my delivery. It… — Amanda Seales Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My days are filled with work I love - reading poems, writing poems, talking with people about poems, teaching, directing a writing… — Deborah Landau Copy Share Image
I'm not religious. I love what Clive James said the other day. James is a brilliant writer, but he keeps on writing… — Tom Courtenay 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… — Richard Dahlstrom Copy Share Image
I'd been writing poems for many years, but most of them I didn't like. Then, when I was 23, I wrote one… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I don't think of writing my poems for China or for the world. I mainly think of a small audience of friends… — Bei Dao Copy Share Image
“Writing poetry's,' I looked around the solarium, but Madame Crommelynck's got a tractor beam, 'sort of . . . gay.' '"Gay"? A… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place. Over the years, I had my heart broken… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
I was writing poems as I was walking. I was able to take that restlessness, that nomadic distraction, and use that distraction… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Considering the ways in which so many of us waste our time, what would be wrong with a world in which everybody… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
“Do you know what a poem is, Esther?' No, what?' I would say. A piece of dust.' Then, just as he was… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I can't stand THE DEPRESSED. It's like a job, it's the only thing they work hard at. Oh good my depression is… — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
“The point of the resurrection…is that the present bodily life is not valueless just because it will die…What you do with your… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
He was all emotion all the time, constantly talking about his feelings and his profound love for her. He was minutes from… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
When I began writing poems, it was in the late 60s and early 70s when the literary and cultural atmosphere was very… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“Now, lying on my back in bed, I imagined Buddy saying, ‘Do you know what a poem is, Esther?’ ‘No, what?’ I… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
“I guess I have no choice But to toss all novels under the rug Nothing can compete with the poetry bug” — Maddy Kobar Copy Share Image
When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“In our time, they say there is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.” — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
I was writing poems and little freestyle raps in my notes throughout all of elementary and high school. — Ice Spice Copy Share Image
In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
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