Write Poetry Quotes
81 quotes by 76 authors
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Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for the people. When…
— Patti Smith
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We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.
— Robin Williams
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I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write
— Colin Quinn
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There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.
— Henry R. Luce
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I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.
— David Antin
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What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing…
— James Dickey
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I write poetry because I can’t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a long…
— Gabriela Mistral
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I began to write poetry again in 1975, when I fell in love with another woman. I returned to poetry not because I had “become…
— Minnie Bruce Pratt
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In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.
— Antonio Machado
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If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as…
— Donald Hall
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What does it mean when a man falls in love with a radiant face across the room? It may mean that he has some soul…
— Robert Bly
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I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.
— Paul Dirac
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As a young writer, I was on guard against the Latina in me, the Spanish in me because as far as I could see the…
— Julia Alvarez
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I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things…
— Roger Waters
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The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
— Robert Penn Warren
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Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.
— Dennis Potter
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I've never been able to write poetry without having vast tracts of dead time. Poetry requires a certain kind of disciplined indolence that the world,…
— Christian Wiman
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I’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.
— May Sarton
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Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after the holocaust is barbaric. And…
— Theodor Adorno
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People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.
— Li-Young Lee
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