Advice Quote by Charles Bukowski

I hope to go into a poem sober and come out a little drunk. And if I do then that's a real poem.

— Dannie Abse

But it's silly to suggest the writing of poetry is something ethereal, a sort of soul-crashing, devastating emotional experience that wrings you. I have…

— Louise Bogan

Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.

— James Dickey

Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat.

— Osbert Sitwell

Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom.

— Robert Frost

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

— Antonin Artaud

I have been eating poetry.

— Mark Strand

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

— Ed Westwick

Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

— Steve Earle

Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's…

— Philip Levine

I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.

— Martin Gore

Poetry is how I feed the soul, and it's how I fire the furnace of writing.

— Luis Alberto Urrea