Believe Quote by Alexander Pope

I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in the nature…

— Andrew Motion

I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better…

— Mark Twain

There's always some reason not to be writing and I regret the times I give in to that, because then writing feels strange -…

— Joan Larkin

Everyone is their own kind of poet - you can't miss it when their words are written down.

— Sheila Heti

I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry. ... I still do feel that a poet has a duty to…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

“After all these years, all I know is, I need not to do anything as a part of remorse. All I need is to…

— Nishikant

I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time…

— Sharon Olds

To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.

— Lucille Clifton

“Considering the ways in which so many of us waste our time, what would be wrong with a world in which everybody were writing…

— Ted Kooser

He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

— John Milton

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

— Nathalie Sarraute

It is important for poets and writers today to know their shortcomings, and be able to edit their own work as well as reject…

— Gulzar