“On Writing Poetry: Take everyday words beyond everyday talent and write them alive.” — C.J. Heck Copy Share Image
Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction. — Peter Porter Copy Share Image
I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared. — Cesare Pavese 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
Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“It didn’t disturb the Sumerians that their script was ill-suited for writing poetry. They didn’t invent it in order to copy spoken… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Through my former experiences, writing poetry and learning other languages leading up to English I find ways to stitch words together that… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
The short story seems like the best of all possible worlds. I do feel it is closer to writing poetry than to… — James Lasdun 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
But it's silly to suggest the writing of poetry is something ethereal, a sort of soul-crashing, devastating emotional experience that wrings you.… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more… — Hu Shih 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 was inspired by what students have done in some schools organizing walkouts protesting the lack of funding and that sort of… — Michelle Alexander 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
“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
“There are many things you can lie your way through; poetry is not one of them.” — Nicole Lyons Copy Share Image
I love being on the road with others, with a camera, but also being alone writing poetry. — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a… — Robert Adamson 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
The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
When I'm writing poetry, 99.9% of my writing begins in English. I spent most of my life in English, although I am bilingual. — Pat Mora Copy Share Image
I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986. — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but… — Lucy Maud Montgomery 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
Queen Latifah was writing poetry. Maybe Latifah's 'Ladies First' and Angelou's 'Phenomenal Woman' are the same thing, a generation apart. — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Poetry can have varied and useful functions; and seduction is apparently something worth writing poetry for.” — Shira Wolosky Copy Share Image
Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“Writing poetry is about learning to pare down the poem to the most essential words. Every word used has to be crucial… — Harley King 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
Now, the process of writing poetry is very messy. Not systematic, never quite the same — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I wrote poetry in middle school and high school and even through college. It was bad. I just don't think I'm very… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
When I started writing poetry, it was always in very hip-hop influenced spaces: Someone would teach a Nas song side-by-side with a… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When I came into consciousness as a writer when I was in my early 20s, I just assumed that a writer did… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
