Autobiographical Quote by Anonymous

“In fiction, the characters have their own lives. They may start as a gloss on the author’s life, but they move on from there.…

— Jane Yolen

I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some set piece…

— Rita Dove

If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.

— Peter Davison

About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives.

— Margaret Atwood

With poets, the choice of words is invariably more telling than the story line; that's why the best of them dread the thought of…

— Joseph Brodsky

There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it.

— Daniel Radcliffe

Everyone is their own kind of poet - you can't miss it when their words are written down.

— Sheila Heti

It may be that poetry makes life's nebulous events tangible to me and restores their detail; or conversely, that poetry brings forth the intangible…

— Frank O'Hara

Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.

— Mary Oliver

“And I'm not a poet: but never despair! I'll madly live the poems I shall never write.”

— Aldous Huxley

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“So many times in a single day we glimpse a view beyond the apparent. Write those moments down. They might not speak to you…

— Joy Williams