Happens Quote by C. K. Williams

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

— Andrew Motion

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

— Charles Bukowski

Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.

— Trevor McDonald

Never write a poem about anything that ought to have a poem written about it.

— Richard Hugo

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

— James Schuyler

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

A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it.

— Randall Jarrell

As you continue writing and rewriting, you begin to see possibilities you hadn't seen before. Writing a poem is always a process of discovery.

— Robert Hayden

“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 don't go get a poem. It calls me and I accept it.

— Lucille Clifton

It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.

— Erica Jong

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

— Thomas Lynch