Writing Poetry Quotes
56 quotes by 49 authors
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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 about 30 that…
— Paul Auster
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I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The…
— Maya Angelou
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It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and…
— Jonah Lehrer
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Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry
— Ted Nelson
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Writing poetry is a pleasure,...a pleasure out of hell
— Kenneth Slessor
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I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers,…
— Shelby Foote
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But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.
— Jeffery Deaver
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We're running into a lot of new problems today because of what we emphasize in this culture. The word 'success' to the average person means…
— Jacque Fresco
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Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode…
— Wislawa Szymborska
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One of the ways in which I feel close to God is writing poetry.
— Christian Wiman
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Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
— Jack Prelutsky
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Composing computer programs to solve scientific problems is like writing poetry. You must choose every word with care and link it with the other words…
— James Lovelock
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Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.
— Alice Notley
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In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice.
— Li-Young Lee
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A banker warned the British poet Robert Graves that one could not grow rich writing poetry. He replied that if there was no money in…
— Robert Graves
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In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up -…
— Renzo Piano
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Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the…
— C. K. Williams
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A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as…
— Mark Strand
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Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am going to try…
— Sidney Lanier
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I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
— Taslima Nasrin
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