Betray Quote by Andrew Motion

My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.

— Henry David Thoreau

And what I've found over time is that for me to write a poem that I think is worthy that I can live with,…

— Edward Hirsch

Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.

— C. K. Williams

Write the poem only you can write.

— Billy Collins

Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.

— Trevor McDonald

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

— Steve Earle

What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.

— Sherman Alexie

Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won’t.

— Dorianne Laux

“I believe that poems, sometimes, perhaps most of the time, ignite something into us. They can transform us overnight. Poems can go to our…

— Yash Thakur

I wrote poetry in a secretive way, I think, a secret from myself, I mean. I wrote it because it gave me great pleasure…

— Philip Schultz

The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.

— Peter Davison

Writing a poem is a lesson in the truest empathy. And to truly have empathy is to truly know power, or at least the…

— Zachary Schomburg