Write Poetry Quotes

81 Write Poetry quotes by 75 unique authors

I really would like to stop working forever–never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now–and do nothing but write… — Allen Ginsberg
I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry... I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I believe we are… — Stephen Fry
Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't. — K.J. Parker
I don't want to because boys don't write poetry. Girls do. — Sharon Creech
To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape. — John Fowles
They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come. — A A Milne
In the eyes of others a man is a poet if he has written one good poem. In his own he is only a poet… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Shaw...has a woman ever asked you to write a poem for her?" "Good God, no," Gideon replied with a snicker. "Shaws don't write poetry. They… — Lisa Kleypas
One must write poetry in such as way that if one threw the poem in a window, the pane would break. — Daniil Kharms
A forest," William said, his expression distant. "Where the ground is dry soil and stone. Where tall trees grow and centuries of autumn carpet their… — Ilona Andrews
People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes… — Lucille Clifton
I'm sure you've heard people talk about their Heart's Desire—well that's a load of rot. Hearts are idiots. They're big and squishy and full of… — Catherynne M. Valente
He found himself wanting to write poetry about how her blue eyes were like starlight and her hair like night, because "night" and "starlight" rhymed,… — Cassandra Clare
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record,… — Will Durant
I write poetry in order to live more fully. — Unknown Author
You can't write poetry on the computer. — Quentin Tarantino
Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters. — E E Cummings
I began to write poetry in high school, and would ride miles over sandy roads in the fine hills around Cedar Rapids, repeating the lines… — Paul Engle
I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds. — Ellen Hopkins
I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the confidence to write… — Christopher Koch
For something to be useful to the spirit is not very valuable to get your covered wagon across the desert. We have adopted that attitude… — Miller Williams
Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan… — Robert Adamson
The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it… — Peter Davison
My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs. — Philip Levine
I like to write poetry. — Rebecca Ferguson

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