Companion Quote by Billy Collins

“Poetry gives the greatest pleasure.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all…

— Claire Tomalin

The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else…

— Marilyn Hacker

Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.

— Marvin J. Ashton

Writing poetry is a pleasure,...a pleasure out of hell

— Kenneth Slessor

There's nothing wrong with delighting in what you do. In fact, most of the fun you'll have as a poet will come about during…

— Ted Kooser

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I love writing. I've always been drawn to that and felt a particular joy in it - like the phrase in Chariots of Fire:…

— Randall Wallace

To feel greatly, and understand greatly, and express greatly, the natural Beauty, is the sole business of poetry. The rest's diversion: those holy or…

— Robinson Jeffers

Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.

— Peter Porter

There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.

— William Cowper

If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem.

— William Carlos Williams