Feels Quote by Denise Duhamel

I compelled myself all through to write an exercise in verse, in a different form, every day of the year. I turned out my…

— Conrad Aiken

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression…

— Alfred Nobel

I switch between fixed forms and free verse often, and enjoy being a poet who can "swing both ways," so to speak.

— Allison Joseph

I dabbled in verse and it became my life

— Patrick Kavanagh

I know that one of the things that I really did to push myself was to write more formal poems, so I could feel…

— Barbara Hamby

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“At one time I was weary of verse writing, and wanted to give it up. At another time I was determined to be a…

— Matsuo Bashō

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way

— Isaac Rosenberg

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure…

— J. K. Rowling

I write poetry because I can’t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a…

— Gabriela Mistral

The spiritual desire for poetry can be overwhelming, so much do I need it to experience and name my own perilous depths and vast…

— Edward Hirsch

I wrote poetry in a secretive way, I think, a secret from myself, I mean. I wrote it because it gave me great pleasure…

— Philip Schultz