I'm finding that writing poetry is strengthening my songwriting, because you're learning to make a piece of writing work on a page… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
“Write a haiku of your problem Can you express your problem in a different and creative way, for example, with a poem?… — Kim Chamberlain Copy Share Image
“There are many things you can lie your way through; poetry is not one of them.” — Nicole Lyons Copy Share Image
I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
“The discords of our experience--delight in change, fear of change; the death of the individual and the survival of the species, the… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
I think the culture can absorb so many people writing poetry and trying to earn their living in poetry. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Writing poetry felt silly, not practical. It was poetry. I wasn't exploring space here. But it felt necessary to me.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“admitted Walter. "Then the girls came in and Nan put cayenne pepper in it—and that made it worse—Di made me hold a… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
I used to be locked up in my bedroom for hours, just listening to music, making some of my own, doodling and… — Ananya Birla Copy Share Image
“ 'We're not... we haven't been writing poetry and sprinkling rose petals and tripping hand in hand under rainbows, Kay.' 'Just because… — Kim Fielding Copy Share Image
...after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
But if a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer "writer" for fear that he may go on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He was in the frame of mind when a weaker man would have started writing poetry.” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Suppose that throughout your childhood you were good with numbers. Other kids used to copy your homework. You figured store discounts faster… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on… — Christina Perri Copy Share Image
I really disliked Philadelphia society - really, deeply disliked it. I spent a lot of my teenage years writing poetry attacking it. — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
We're running into a lot of new problems today because of what we emphasize in this culture. The word 'success' to the… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
“Dear Hands, I get it. You like writing poetry. But you can’t bring a metaphor to a gunfight.” — Rudy Francisco Copy Share Image
women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time. ... Women, then, have not… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I enjoy writing poetry more than seeing people in real life. To me most people are the same. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see. — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
