Answers Quote by Billy Bragg

“After all these years, all I know is, I need not to do anything as a part of remorse. All I need is to…

— Nishikant

I really enjoy doing my poems. So that's it; I'm condemned in some way to be a poet.

— Tim Key

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

— Aldous Huxley

I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in the nature…

— Andrew Motion

“When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write poetry at…

— Gustave Flaubert

I do consider my engaged poetry as a personal mission, a duty toward a society which evolves into a system of control of consciences:…

— Jan Theuninck

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

— James Schuyler

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

— Isaac Rosenberg

“Incomprehensible is the height of your spirit both in heroical resolution and matters of conceit. Unreprievably perishes that book whatsoever to wastepaper, which on…

— Thomas Nashe

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

These days, if you happen to be a poet you have to sing your words to get your ideas out.

— Sara Genn

What we feel is beyond words. We should be ashamed of our poems.

— Nizar Qabbani