Writing Poems Quotes

25 Writing Poems quotes by 23 unique authors

I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was about 30 that… — Paul Auster
If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time. — Sherman Alexie
When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country you… — May Sarton
I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand. — David Antin
I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems. — Donald Hall
My own personal task is not simply that of poet and writer (still less commentator, pseudo-prophet); it is basically to praise God out of an… — Thomas Merton
What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy,… — N. T. Wright
The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of… — Mark Strand
I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13. — Kevin Powers
While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period when I read… — Paul Auster
Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide. — Jack Nicholson
Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place. — Jill Scott
Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place. Over the years, I had my heart broken so badly that… — Jill Scott
I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to… — Gary Snyder
One of the remarkable things about love is that, despite very irritating people writing poems and songs about how pleasant it is, it really is… — Daniel Handler
I gasp, because Isn't that just exactly what I've been doing too: writing poems and scattering them to the winds with the same hope as… — Jandy Nelson
She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight. — Jeffrey Eugenides
But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good. — Sylvia Plath
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems. — Wislawa Szymborska
Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class. — Matt de la Pena
Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a… — Natasha Trethewey
I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father. — Bernardo Bertolucci
Since the age of 11, I have loved writing poems and fragments from my life. — Niki de St. Phalle
In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They… — Muriel Rukeyser
He was all emotion all the time, constantly talking about his feelings and his profound love for her. He was minutes from getting his first… — Chelsea Handler

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