Best Writing Poetry Quotes

56 Writing Poetry quotes by 49 unique authors

• Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words… — Helen Dunmore
• Writing poetry, we live among the wild beasts, and when we touch a man, the stuff of someone in whom we believed, and he goes… — Pablo Neruda
• Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention. — Mark Strand
• Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that. — Steve Earle
• When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in… — Umberto Eco
• I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere… — Erica Jong
• I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction. — Robert Morgan
• On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the… — Hu Shih
• Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. — Theodor Adorno
• Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? — Virginia Woolf
• What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this… — Virginia Woolf
• Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage. — Pat Conroy
• Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
• It would be inappropiate, undignified, at 38, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour or intensity of a 22 year old. Falling in… — David Nicholls
• But if a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer "writer" for fear that he may go on to ask me… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more… — David Nicholls
• Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something that,… — Richard Wilbur
• The real you is still a little child who never grew up. Sometimes that little child comes out when you are having fun or playing,… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
• Writing poetry is a state of free float. — Margaret Atwood
• Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination. — Ishmael Reed
• Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared. — Cesare Pavese
• When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry… — Margaret Atwood
• 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
• I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge. — Jeffery Deaver
• Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction. — George Murray

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

• 2 Writing Poetry Quotes by Wislawa Szymborska
• 2 Writing Poetry Quotes by Virginia Woolf
• 2 Writing Poetry Quotes by Theodor Adorno
• 2 Writing Poetry Quotes by Mark Strand
• 2 Writing Poetry Quotes by Margaret Atwood
• 2 Writing Poetry Quotes by Jeffery Deaver
• 2 Writing Poetry Quotes by David Nicholls
• 1 Writing Poetry Quote by Wystan Hugh Auden
• 1 Writing Poetry Quote by Walt Whitman
• 1 Writing Poetry Quote by Vikram Seth
• 1 Writing Poetry Quote by Unknown Author
• 1 Writing Poetry Quote by Umberto Eco
• 1 Writing Poetry Quote by Ted Nelson
• 1 Writing Poetry Quote by Taslima Nasrin
• 1 Writing Poetry Quote by Steve Earle
• 1 Writing Poetry Quote by Sidney Lanier
• 1 Writing Poetry Quote by Shelby Foote
• 1 Writing Poetry Quote by Robert Morgan
• 1 Writing Poetry Quote by Robert Graves
• 1 Writing Poetry Quote by Robert Adamson
• 1 Writing Poetry Quote by Richard Wilbur
• 1 Writing Poetry Quote by Renzo Piano
• 1 Writing Poetry Quote by Paul Auster
• 1 Writing Poetry Quote by Pat Conroy
• 1 Writing Poetry Quote by Pablo Neruda