I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to conclusions. — Chrisette Michele Copy Share Image
Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it....Like some animal. — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
“1. You most want your friends and family to see you as someone who … a. Is willing to make sacrifices and… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
“Fruition- Think of writing as a harvest. You till the ground. Plant. Water. Wait. Apple trees take years to bear fruit. Harvest.… — Keelie Breanna Copy Share Image
“What’s the use of writing poetry for your peers? I don’t think I should sell my poetry to other poets. If that’s… — Harley King Copy Share Image
Before you ridicule, remember somebody on a railway platform who seems to be train spotting may actually be writing poetry. — John Hegley Copy Share Image
Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of… — Aaron Belz Copy Share Image
“this is where the poets will interject / they will say: show, dont tell / but that assumes most people can see” — Marwa Helal Copy Share Image
Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
At times of crisis or distress, it's poems that people turn to. (Poetry) still has a power to speak to people's feelings,… — Blake Morrison Copy Share Image
When I am writing poetry, I try to make my mind go a little lazy, to not think too much, as a… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
I began writing and became attached to writing at an early age. I began by writing poetry and experimenting with dialogues: modest… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
The whole point of writing poetry or fiction is that you get to agonize over whatever it is you want to say,… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
I remember writing a song when I was about 15. This is the one I can remember. I know I'd been writing… — Ladyhawke Copy Share Image
“There are a number of things a woman can tell about a man who is roughly twenty-nine years old, sitting in the… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
When I started writing poetry in my senior term of high school - I was sixteen - I felt in touch with… — Gerard Malanga Copy Share Image
“I do think free will is sewn into everything we do; you can't cross a street, light a cigarette, drop saccharine in… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
“Writing poetry is like having sex with the universe and the language is just a condom.” — TRIPURARI Copy Share Image
“And the dark night of flow is an issue that society has not made particularly easy to handle. How many people have… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
Baudelaire's L'Héautontimorouménos was long seen to be a sexual sadomasochistic poem, it is now generally accepted that the poem is about writing… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction. — Peter Porter Copy Share Image
Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in… — C. K. Williams Copy Share Image
