I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
This is going to sound nuts but it took me forever to figure out why I'd stopped writing poetry - I mean,… — Achy Obejas Copy Share Image
I think that the dark side of MFA programs is that they're generating more poets than the culture can absorb and there… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“The move away from writing poetry was gradual. It was a gentle slope into a muddy pond; it was a collection of… — Angela Doll Carlson Copy Share Image
The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
I think I'm no different to my friends who are doctors or businessmen or architects - we all started watching films of… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
“Poetry can have varied and useful functions; and seduction is apparently something worth writing poetry for.” — Shira Wolosky Copy Share Image
“I once tried hawking my own book around the pubs in the hope that, like the Salvation Army, I too could sell… — Peter Finch Copy Share Image
“In my more rebellious days I tried to doubt the existence of the sacred, but the universe kept dancing and life kept… — David N. Elkins Copy Share Image
Even though novels were the love of my life, I started off writing poetry. I think because I had a knack for… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
I have always been musically inclined, whether it's been playing the santoor from a young age or writing poetry that has now… — Ananya Birla Copy Share Image
I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous. — James Dickey Copy Share Image
Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I didn't mind writing incoherently, up until about 1980, occasionally. But after that, I decided, might as well be articulate. And I… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
I began writing poetry when I was about 10. Bad poetry, but you start with bad poetry. — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
I have been writing poetry ever since I was in high school. My poetry mainly concerned the theme of love. And that,… — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The judges who awarded the 1980 Commonwealth Poetry Prize to my first collection of poems, Crossing the Peninsula and Other Poems, cited… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“and a day spent working for money is wasted while a day spent writing poetry is wasted but more honest.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury! — Jennifer Stone 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
Writing poetry, which for me was then saying how I felt about this and that, didn't help me to understand the world… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
