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• I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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

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