Moving Quote by Billy Collins

Now, the process of writing poetry is very messy. Not systematic, never quite the same

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into…

— Michael Tippett

Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all…

— Lauren Oliver

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.

— Edward Hirsch

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with…

— Shelby Foote

Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent…

— Sarah Kay

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

— Thomas Lynch

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

— C.D. Wright

“But that's a good match for the way I've always approached life. I've always believed in motion and action, in following connections wherever they…

— Jay-Z

I'm not a poet. So the writing process is a difficult one for me.

— Billy Squier

Started writing poetry the other day. POETR, it's coming along nicely.

— Anonymous

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

— Ishmael Reed