Awareness Quote by Ben Lerner

I don't know if there are topics that I unconsciously avoid, but as soon as they pop up in my writing, I try to…

— Denise Duhamel

I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of limits of…

— John Updike

I've reached a point in life where it would be easy to let down my guard and write simple imagistic poems. But I don't…

— Maxine Kumin

I want to preserve a certain unknowing about my own poems - perhaps because unknowing is in itself a useful poetic thirst. To move…

— Jane Hirshfield

I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't…

— Aleksandar Hemon

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

“Often one spends weeks trying to write a poem out of the conscious mind that never comes to anything - these are sort of…

— Philip Larkin

I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

— Muhammad Iqbal

You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch with to…

— Edward Hirsch

I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.

— May Sarton

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

— James Schuyler