Depression Quote by Alfred Nobel

I've written poetry most of my life.

— Julia Michaels

I started wanting desperately to say something, to make a point, to be heard - and I still feel that way. Free verse served…

— Denise Duhamel

I write poetry in order to live more fully.

— Judith Rodriguez

Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.

— Sandra Cisneros

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

— Ed Westwick

I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.

— Janine Turner

To me, poetry is a rational act. I never write a poem if I'm not sure what I am going to say or what…

— Luljeta Lleshanaku

I have to interweave my poetry with purpose. For me, that purpose is to help people, and to shed a light on issues that…

— Amanda Gorman

You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a…

— Phyllis Gotlieb

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

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

— William Hughes Mearns

I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.

— Michael Helm