Always on my mind Quote by Anna Journey

I am furious at all the letters to answer, when all I want to do is think and write poems. ... I long for…

— May Sarton

I do love writing prose interspersed with the poetry of other people. Their rhythms break into my prose and create a connection.

— Pattiann Rogers

I sit a lot with my lyrics - I don't write just to write or put a line in just to have one. Everything…

— Snoh Aalegra

O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline, you've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space that you've just got…

— Sylvia Plath

That's what interests me in poetry. That withholding, that white space, the pressure, and my long-term faith in violent concision, is still with me.

— Lucie Brock-Broido

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were…

— C. Day Lewis

As soon as I start to write I'm very aware, I'm trying to be aware that a reader just might well pick up this…

— Billy Collins

I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.

— Michel de Montaigne

I am overwhelmed by the beautiful disorder of poetry, the eternal virginity of words.

— Theodore Roethke

“Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one’s living from writing…

— John Banville

...we're all in a soup of trying to live by words, and trying to live by poetry. It's both humbling, and really flattering to…

— Dar Williams