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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

We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

— Anonymous

“When you are composing a verse, let there not be a hair's breadth separating your mind from what you write. Quickly say what is…

— Robert Hass

“But is this not what poetry must do? To say the nothing that cannot be said?”

— John Crowley

“It's been said of writers that if we don't have to write, we ought not to.”

— ChiLibris

“I don't write to be understood; I write to understand.”

— Robert Cecil Day-Lewis

“I do not write poetry; I take words and dip them in feelings.”

— Arti Honrao

“Poetry wasn't written to be analysed: it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.”

— Nicholas Sparks

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.

— William Cobbett

“It would be better to give up the notion of writing until you are better prepared. Now it's time to be living. I don't…

— Sherwood Anderson

“I do think that poetry is important though, if you don’t strive at it, if you don’t fill it full of stars and falseness.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Writing at its best is simply taking dictation from your soul.”

— Catherine Carrigan