Faculty Quote by David Bowie

“Someday I would have lovers and write a poem after”

— Janet Fitch

There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school.

— Sharon Olds

“Poetry is a distinct faculty, - it won't come when called, - you may as well whistle for a wind.”

— George Gordon Byron

Started writing poetry the other day. POETR, it's coming along nicely.

— Anonymous

I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

— Robert Penn Warren

I'll be a poet, and you'll be poetry.

— Anonymous

“Life is a poem just waiting to be written, lift your pen and speak.”

— Susie Clevenger

“Every day begins like a blank chalkboard, on which each one of us can write the poem of our present and our dreams for…

— Ricky Martin

“I will go to campus alone dressed in antique silk slips and beat-up cowboy boots and gypsy beads, and I will study poetry. I…

— Francesca Lia Block

Your poems will happen when no one is there.

— May Sarton

I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.

— Natasha Trethewey

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

— Carol Ann Duffy