I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems. — Donald Hall 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
When I am asked how I began writing poems, I talk about the indifference of nature. — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
“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
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 time, they say there is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.” — Muriel Rukeyser 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
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
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
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
“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 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
“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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Writing is not always a priority. . . .I only write those things that are necessary for me to write. I love… — Tony Leuzzi Copy Share Image
“I caution against communication because once language exist only to convey information, it is dying. In news articles the relation of the… — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 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
“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 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
