Down and Quote by Charles Bukowski

If you're going to write, write one poem all your life, let nobody read it, and then burn it. This is very young thinking,…

— Jack Nicholson

When you write, don't say, "I'm going to write a poem." That attitude will freeze you right away. Sit down with the least expectation…

— Natalie Goldberg

Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to…

— Harold Bloom

“And when you write a poem within the accepted poem-form, making it sound like a poem because a poem is a poem is a…

— Charles Bukowski

“and I can still write a poem (sometimes), don’t forget that, and even if they don’t pay off, it’s better than waiting for death…

— Charles Bukowski

“Sit here, so I may write you into a poem and make you eternal.”

— Kamand Kojouri

Its not easy to write a poem about a poem.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all…

— Claire Tomalin

My father, Eric Trethewey, is a poet, so I had one right inside the house. And on long trips, he'd tell me, if I…

— Natasha Trethewey

A person sets out to write a poem for a variety of reasons: to win the heart of his beloved; to express his attitude…

— Joseph Brodsky

Weirdly, it's much easier to write a poem than a film.

— Tim Key

“How to Write a Poem Catch the air around the butterfly.”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer