Adventure Quote by Carol Ann Duffy

I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter,…

— Carol Ann Duffy

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

I have never felt inhibited in trying to write as well as the greatest English poets.

— Derek Walcott

I love poetry, but I find it so difficult to write well.

— Emily Susan Rapp

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

It's difficult to put your own bare ass out on the limb every time you sit down to write a poem. But that's really…

— Sam Hamill

“That’s the beauty of poetry,” I said. “That language is inadequate to describe life. So poetry just tries to bring up emotions. Just read…

— Victor Methos

I'd been writing poems for many years, but most of them I didn't like. Then, when I was 23, I wrote one I did…

— Siri Hustvedt

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 love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.

— Michael Helm

Everyone is their own kind of poet - you can't miss it when their words are written down.

— Sheila Heti

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