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 see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems. — Donald Hall 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
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
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
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
When I am asked how I began writing poems, I talk about the indifference of nature. — Lisel Mueller 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
“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
“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
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
“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 prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems. — Anonymous 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
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'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
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
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
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
“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
