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I wanted to write poetry almost a little more than I wanted to eat.

— Paul Engle

I like to joke that I started writing long poems out the anxiety over ending and starting poems. It just seemed easier to keep…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

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

— Steve Earle

I have been eating poetry.

— Mark Strand

I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of.

— Robert Frost

I love poetry, but I find it so difficult to write well.

— Emily Susan Rapp

I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.

— Carl Sandburg

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

— Ed Westwick

I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.

— Michael Helm

Poetry can startle you, awaken you, make you fall in love, take your breath away. When those words sink in, you'll never look at…

— Maria Shriver

I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.

— Mary Oliver

In recent poems, I have abandoned the theme of not being able to write for an even more obsessive subject, the nature of language,…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim