Children Quote by Carl Sandburg

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed 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

“Poetry should be like 'Uh-huh. Baby has to have it.”

— Chelsey Minnis

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

— Andrei Voznesensky

“I am certain, my love, that poetry was born only after your birth.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“Writing a novel is the closest thing a male writer will ever get to the experience of childbirth.”

— Norman Mailer

“Writing poetry is like having sex with the universe and the language is just a condom.”

— TRIPURARI

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

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

“Poetry is man’s best means of perceiving most profoundly the action and the consequence of his own emotions.”

— John Ciardi

“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

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