Write Poetry Quotes

81 quotes by 76 authors

• 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
• 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
• I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write — Colin Quinn
• 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
• I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do. — David Antin
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it. — Antonio Machado
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it. — Robert Penn Warren
• Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty. — Dennis Potter
• 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
• 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
• 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
• People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush. — Li-Young Lee

Who Wrote These Write Poetry Quotes

76 authors contributed a total of 81 Write Poetry Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 3 Write Poetry Quotes by Robert Bly
• 2 Write Poetry Quotes by Stanley Victor Paskavich
• 2 Write Poetry Quotes by Paul Engle
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by Robin Williams
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by Shayne Ward
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by Ellen Hopkins
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by Colin Quinn
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by Andrew Bird
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by Christopher Koch
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by Henry R. Luce
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by Candace Bushnell
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by Miller Williams
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by David Antin
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by Linton Kwesi Johnson
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by Robert Adamson
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by James Dickey
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by Vikram Seth
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by Peter Davison
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by Gabriela Mistral
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by Amy Clampitt
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by Philip Levine
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by Minnie Bruce Pratt
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by Walter Pater
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by Rebecca Ferguson
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by Antonio Machado