“I screamed at myself in the subway for writing poems about you still. I made a scene. I think about you almost… — Jon Sands Copy Share Image
When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And… — C. K. Williams Copy Share Image
Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part. — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was… — David Antin Copy Share Image
There is a specific kind of day when I feel like writing poems. My senses become really sharp. This day is when… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
I'm going to spend my life writing poems, turning them into music that will affect people and touch their hearts. I'm going… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
I'm always writing towards a discovery. When I'm writing poems in particular, I'm often writing because a few images coalesced in my… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
“She asked me why I never came, said she had heard all sorts of stories about me. This was only to gain… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
For me, form is something I locate in the process of writing the poems. What I mean is, I start scribbling, and… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort.… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
In grad school, a friend and I gave ourselves the task of writing poems in the voice of Beyoncé and Lady Gaga… — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
“Autobiographia Literaria" When I was a child I played by myself in a corner of the schoolyard all alone. I hated dolls… — Frank O'Hara 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… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“I was mistaken when I said you live in my heart. How absurd I was when you live in my fingertips so… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“See the whole thing is a world full of rucksack wanderers, Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Even when writing your own poems, you need to talk to people; you need to magpie around, getting words and things. I'm… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
I was teaching myself notes from three and then by seven I'd figured out how to play some chords, and at school… — Ella Henderson Copy Share Image
(Songwriting) It's a gift. It all comes from somewhere. I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems,… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I write poems about relationships, love relationships, and I'm not able to do that all the time. I could go two years… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I started out writing poems before I figured to put melodies to them and play the guitar. Somewhere, there's a book out… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
I gasp, because Isn't that just exactly what I've been doing too: writing poems and scattering them to the winds with the… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“Creativeness is not merely a matter of painting pictures or writing poems, which is good to do, but which is very little… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I'm a memoir writer. I try to understand the world by taking experiences I have and making them into a story, whether… — Staceyann Chin Copy Share Image
“To her surprise, Madeleine found herself contemplating this proposal. Why not tell her parents everything, curl up in the backseat of the… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
