Writing Poetry Quotes

56 quotes by 49 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Writing poetry is a pleasure,...a pleasure out of hell — Kenneth Slessor
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• One of the ways in which I feel close to God is writing poetry. — Christian Wiman
• Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career. — Jack Prelutsky
• 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
• Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be. — Alice Notley
• In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice. — Li-Young Lee
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986. — Taslima Nasrin

Who Wrote These Writing Poetry Quotes

49 authors contributed a total of 56 Writing Poetry Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Writing Poetry Quotes by Mark Strand
• 2 Writing Poetry Quotes by Theodor Adorno
• 2 Writing Poetry Quotes by Virginia Woolf
• 2 Writing Poetry Quotes by David Nicholls
• 2 Writing Poetry Quotes by Jeffery Deaver
• 2 Writing Poetry Quotes by Margaret Atwood
• 2 Writing Poetry Quotes by Wislawa Szymborska
• 1 Writing Poetry Quote by Sidney Lanier
• 1 Writing Poetry Quote by Taslima Nasrin
• 1 Writing Poetry Quote by Christina Perri
• 1 Writing Poetry Quote by Walt Whitman
• 1 Writing Poetry Quote by Chrisette Michele
• 1 Writing Poetry Quote by Vikram Seth
• 1 Writing Poetry Quote by Helen Dunmore
• 1 Writing Poetry Quote by Pablo Neruda
• 1 Writing Poetry Quote by Steve Earle
• 1 Writing Poetry Quote by Umberto Eco
• 1 Writing Poetry Quote by Erica Jong
• 1 Writing Poetry Quote by Robert Morgan
• 1 Writing Poetry Quote by Hu Shih
• 1 Writing Poetry Quote by Paul Auster
• 1 Writing Poetry Quote by Maya Angelou
• 1 Writing Poetry Quote by Pat Conroy
• 1 Writing Poetry Quote by Jonah Lehrer
• 1 Writing Poetry Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald