Writing poetry Quotes

I always thought that writing poetry was in itself a political act.

— John Ashbery

In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice.

— Li-Young Lee

Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.

— George Murray

Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.

— Pat Conroy

Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.

— Mark Strand

“I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

One of the ways in which I feel close to God is writing poetry.

— Christian Wiman

...the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry...

— Billy Collins

“She had a habit of walking around in white cotton panties and writing poetry on the back of crumpled envelopes.”

— Michael Faudet

For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry.

— David Biespiel

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

— Frederick Busch

Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.

— Jack Prelutsky

I have been writing poetry ever since I was in high school. My poetry mainly concerned the theme of love. And that,…

— Robert Indiana

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.

— Jeffery Deaver

I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.

— Ernesto Cardenal

I was quiet, and I was artistic. I liked writing poetry, and that was very strange, so I was bullied a lot.

— Nelsan Ellis

But if a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer "writer" for fear that he may go on…

— Anonymous

“We will read books together inside the blanket and stay warm. And keep writing poetry in our respective journals. Time will fly…

— Avijeet Das

I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in…

— Grace Cavalieri

“Fruition- Think of writing as a harvest. You till the ground. Plant. Water. Wait. Apple trees take years to bear fruit. Harvest.…

— Keelie Breanna

“ '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

I didn't come in and say: "I'm a singer." I came into the band as a second guitar player and a vocalist,…

— Paul Banks

In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I…

— Renzo Piano

I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort…

— Erica Jong

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

People have a very limited idea of what being creative is - playing the guitar or the flute or writing poetry -…

— Rajneesh

This is going to sound nuts but it took me forever to figure out why I'd stopped writing poetry - I mean,…

— Achy Obejas

“Falling in love like that? Writing poetry, crying at pop songs? Dragging people into photo-booths, taking a while day to make a…

— David Nicholls

When I devoted myself to poetry - and poetry is a very serious medium - I don't think the people that knew…

— Ana Castillo

“It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry -- if they want to be successful, they need to learn…

— Jonah Lehrer

I mean, what's thematic? How to put it? Going back to, like, 1980, when I started writing poetry. Language itself became an…

— Richard Meltzer

'Dead Poets Society' was a very influential film on me and so talking about that movie with him, he just inspired me…

— Dante Basco

“No, this, she felt, was real life and if she wasn’t as curious or passionate as she had once been, that was…

— David Nicholls

“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

“…she made a poem on it at once, the lines singing themselves through her consciousness without effort. With one side of her…

— L.M. Montgomery

“And the dark night of flow is an issue that society has not made particularly easy to handle. How many people have…

— Steven Kotler

“Those who would like to become writers attend courses on writing poetry and prose and analyze their own work and that of…

— Dejan Stojanovic

“An individual's torments only have meaning within his or her personal experience. Faced with the collective we are as naked and helpless…

— Aldo Carotenuto

“Writing is not always a priority. . . .I only write those things that are necessary for me to write. I love…

— Tony Leuzzi

“In this mortal frame of mine which is made of a hundred bones and nine orifices there is something, and this something…

— Bashō Matsuo