Clear Quote by Carl Sandburg

I don't do much of anything consciously in writing - in poetry writing, anyway, prose usually being a different matter, of course.

— Ron Padgett

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

All I do and say and think 'as a poet' is much truer and more intimate than anything I say face to face.

— Selima Hill

My works are all expressly my own - pleasingly peculiar, not a borrowed stroke in one of them. I write as I feel and…

— Amanda McKittrick Ros

While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think…

— Thom Gunn

I write to explore something that fascinates me, and I write the way I do because it is the only way I know how…

— Cathy Marie Buchanan

To me, writing is a matter of voice. I think like that. The expression I sometimes use to myself is 'actual song.' That what…

— Robert Pinsky

They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.

— Tom Glazer

I started then to try and shape something rather than just express it and when I started to shape something and to imitate other…

— Edward Hirsch

I write poems to find out why I write them

— Stephen Dobyns

I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was…

— Simon Armitage

Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.

— Kevin Powers