Addictive Quote by C. K. Williams

I love to write poetry.

— Shayne Ward

I love poetry. It's at the heart of everything I do. Poetry transforms what we call language, and uses language as the stuff to…

— Ashley Bryan

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

Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem,…

— Sakyong Mipham

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

— John Fowles

Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way,…

— C. K. Williams

Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of…

— Helen Dunmore

Poetry is interesting because not everyone is going to become a great poet, but anyone can be, and anyone can enjoy poetry, and it's…

— Amanda Gorman

Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it....Like some animal.

— Denise Levertov

one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

For me, poetry is a way of thinking, and like many poets, I'm driven by the idea of trying to find the impossible, perfect…

— James Arthur