Birth Quote by Carl Sandburg

“Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-haired child.”

— Carl Sandburg

Sweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem than for any woman ever born.

— Charles Bukowski

Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them.

— Andrei Voznesensky

Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.

— Thomas Carlyle

It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.

— Erica Jong

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

— Muhammad Iqbal

Poetry is telling something to someone.

— Marie Howe

I think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other women out…

— Francesca Lia Block

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

— Ishmael Reed

Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature that wants…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pain and hurt of being a…

— Jimmy Santiago Baca

“The poet's nature is all searching, creator and nourisher of desire; the poet is like the heart in a people's breast, a people without…

— Sir Muhammad Iqbal Allama Iqbal