About Quote by C. Day Lewis

“When you are composing a verse, let there not be a hair's breadth separating your mind from what you write. Quickly say what is…

— Robert Hass

I compelled myself all through to write an exercise in verse, in a different form, every day of the year. I turned out my…

— Conrad Aiken

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression…

— Alfred Nobel

“What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write … so long as we write continually as well as we…

— Patricia Goodson

I started wanting desperately to say something, to make a point, to be heard - and I still feel that way. Free verse served…

— Denise Duhamel

Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.

— Howard Nemerov

I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I…

— Leonard Cohen

Verse is a mechanism by which we can create interpretative illusions suggesting profoundities of response and understanding which far exceed the engagement or research…

— John Constable

When I began to dare to be clear, because I think clarity is the real risk in poetry because you are exposed. You're out…

— Billy Collins

I don't believe in writer's block. I'll get stuck, but being stuck, I'll still write a verse. If you know where you're going, you…

— Rakim

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy…

— Dr. Seuss

The one who writes a poem writes it above all because verse writing is an extraordinary accelerator of conscience, of thinking, of comprehending the…

— Joseph Brodsky