Write Poems Quotes
34 quotes by 32 authors
-
Too many poets write poems which are only difficult on the surface, difficult because the dramatic situation is easily misunderstood. It's not difficult to write…
— Miller Williams
-
We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what you will. Why?…
— Harry Crews
-
He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We all write poems;…
— John Fowles
-
Try to write poems at least one person in the room will hate.
— Marvin Bell
-
To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood we will fail, and if we…
— Donald Hall
-
I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see…
— Stanley Kunitz
-
I am gonna write poems til i die and when i have gotten outta this body i am gonna hang round in the wind and…
— Ntozake Shange
-
I write poems to find out why I write them
— Stephen Dobyns
-
I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy.
— Billy Sherwood
-
Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.
— Anne Stevenson
-
I have no talent. I write poems for myself, to think things through, that’s all.
— Anna Kamienska
-
You can't write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
— Bertolt Brecht
-
Poetic justice, poetic justice.. if I told you that a flower bloom in a dark room would you trust it. I mean I write poems…
— Kendrick Lamar
-
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
— Yehuda Amichai
-
I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different place. I'm trying to take a…
— Billy Collins
-
It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been…
— Yusef Komunyakaa
-
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
— John Fowles
-
I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.
— Martin Gore
-
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
-
I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your…
— Philip Larkin
Who Wrote These Write Poems Quotes
32 authors contributed a total of 34 Write Poems Quotes, led by these top contributors: