Celebrate Quote by Alice Walker

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

— Jack Nicholson

I've written poetry most of my life.

— Julia Michaels

There is a specific kind of day when I feel like writing poems. My senses become really sharp. This day is when I feel…

— Kim Hyesoon

Writing poetry is a pleasure,...a pleasure out of hell

— Kenneth Slessor

Poetry at least in my own life, is really about your own mortality. Everything in poetry makes me think of my mortality. It is…

— Keith Carter

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all…

— Claire Tomalin

I write poetry in order to live more fully.

— Judith Rodriguez

Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

— Steve Earle

I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.

— Donald Hall

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

— Cesare Pavese

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

— Isaac Rosenberg