Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I guess I started writing poetry and stuff and then decided to set it to music. — Johnny Flynn 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
“The writing of the poetry is natural. It's the feeling of being connected to someone which moves the pen...” — Jr. Lily Copy Share Image
Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
Herman has taken to writing poetry. You need not tell anyone, for you know how such things get around. — Elizabeth Shaw Melville Copy Share Image
“Writing poetry is like having sex with the universe and the language is just a condom.” — TRIPURARI Copy Share Image
Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind. — Edward Hirsch 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
I'm an actress, primarily. I love to write poetry. I've been writing poetry since I was 12 years old. — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
I really like writing poetry and lyrics because it's one thing where I give up control. I don't feel like I need… — Alissa White-Gluz Copy Share Image
I've always just liked writing poetry, but it's much later that I've discovered that there's this whole poetry world out there, that… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
I'm not a rock star writing poetry. I don't feel like a rock star and I don't know what one is, actually.… — Gord Downie Copy Share Image
“Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. (...) Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athenian slaves. Women, then, have… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Poetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and motivates the mightiest of offices to humbly… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The mysterious thing about writing poetry is that when you're - when things are going poorly, when you're not thinking well, even… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
But I think for me, writing poetry when I was younger really helped me to condense an idea or a story into… — Arlo Parks 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
Composing computer programs to solve scientific problems is like writing poetry. You must choose every word with care and link it with… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
Once considered an art form that called for talent, or at least a craft that called for practice, a poem now needs… — Barbara Holland 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
“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 whole process of having to put the thing into the world seems so antithetical to the act of writing. Poetry is… — Nick Laird 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
The question does arise if how and why to write poetry in this time. It feels both completely essential and also quite… — Matthew Zapruder 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
“You never know that. I don't know it; Robert Lowell doesn't know it; John Berryman didn't know it; and Shakespeare probably didn't… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
“Considering the ways in which so many of us waste our time, what would be wrong with a world in which everybody… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
“So they gave me love in form of poison and tiny little pills, programming my emotions, teaching me how to feel. To… — Charlotte Eriksson 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
“Imagine what you can give in these areas of the Twelve Areas of Balance: 9.YOUR CAREER. What are your visions for your… — Vishen Lakhiani 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
“Whatand why were never questions for me. How was the only question. When I look back now, I realize that I never… — Sadhguru Copy Share Image
