Being honest Quote by Bao Phi

I don't now whether I am a poet or not, but I'm quite sure that I write with the transparency of the soul and…

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

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

I never think of my audience when I write a poem. I try to write out of whatever is haunting me; in order for…

— Rita Dove

If the motive of writing is for some people a kind of exercise in dirty laundry, that's one thing. I've always thought of my…

— Stephen Dunn

When a poem doesn't work, the first question to ask yourself is, 'Am I telling the truth?'

— Wendy Cope

With writing, I think you have to be honest with yourself. I have a certain kind of writing; that is, I like to really…

— Sylvester Stallone

How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.

— Gregory Maguire

I use poetry to explain myself to myself. It is a way of investigating who you really are, what you feel, what survives the…

— Jonathan W. Galassi

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow…

— Mark Strand

There's always some reason not to be writing and I regret the times I give in to that, because then writing feels strange -…

— Joan Larkin

I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry. ... I still do feel that a poet has a duty to…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

Sometimes you have to be less ashamed about writing a bad poem than you would be about being silent.

— Robert Hass