Write Poetry Quotes

81 Write Poetry quotes by 75 unique authors

• My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. Figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English probably was my worst subject.… — Herschel Walker
• My feeling is that poetry is also a healing process, and then when a person tries to write poetry with depth or beauty, he will… — Robert Bly
• Im looking for a guy who makes you want to dance and write poetry all day long. — Angela Sarafyan
• One day while studying a Yeats poem I decided to write poetry the rest of my life. I recognized that a single short poem has… — Robert Bly
• I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women… — Diane Wakoski
• Downtime is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking at the curb, lying on the grass or sitting on the stoop and… — Anna Quindlen
• You have to have been in love to write poetry. — Raymond Carver
• I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want… — Aleksandar Hemon
• I find that when people haven't found God and do not know the new birth and the Spirit is not on them, yet they have… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
• I wanted to write poetry almost a little more than I wanted to eat. — Paul Engle
• I love to write poetry. — Shayne Ward
• I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords. — Andrew Bird
• I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to… — Candace Bushnell
• I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to creatively articulate the… — Linton Kwesi Johnson
• Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a… — Vikram Seth
• Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something. — Amy Clampitt
• Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult. — Walter Pater
• Love is an irrational force, making humans do all sorts of strange and wonderful things like write poetry and take up the ukulele. — Amy Dickinson
• If I knew how to say it directly, I would not need to write poetry. I would just talk to people and be happy. — Selima Hill
• Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet. — Misha Collins
• I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it. — Carol Ann Duffy
• One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry. — James Fenton
• I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well. — Annie Lennox
• I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning… — Ben Okri
• The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about—clouds—daffodils—waterfalls—what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in—these things… — Tom Stoppard

Who Wrote These Write Poetry Quotes

75 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 Unknown Author
• 2 Write Poetry Quotes by Stanley Victor Paskavich
• 2 Write Poetry Quotes by Paul Engle
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by Wystan Hugh Auden
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by William Faulkner
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by Will Durant
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by Walter Pater
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by Vikram Seth
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by Tom Stoppard
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by Theodor Adorno
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by Stephen Fry
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by Shayne Ward
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by Sharon Creech
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by Selima Hill
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by Rupert Brooke
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by Roger Waters
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by Robin Williams
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by Robert Penn Warren
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by Robert Frost
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by Robert Adamson
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by Rebecca Ferguson
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by Raymond Carver
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by Quentin Tarantino
• 1 Write Poetry Quote by Philip Levine