Amount Quote by Denise Duhamel

Most of the poems I write go through forty versions and then stay in a file on my computer. I'm not very good at…

— Nick Laird

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

— Frederick Busch

I don't know if there are topics that I unconsciously avoid, but as soon as they pop up in my writing, I try to…

— Denise Duhamel

I've written poetry most of my life.

— Julia Michaels

I keep all my poems in my journals and lock them away. They are the start of everything.

— Stevie Nicks

I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.

— Taslima Nasrin

Any work of art makes one very simple demand on anyone who genuinely wants to get in touch with it. And that is to…

— W. S. Merwin

I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume.

— Grazia Deledda

I'm a struggling poet. I've never shown my work to anyone. I write it all for myself and I'm not interested in showing it…

— Kunal Kapoor

I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in the nature…

— Andrew Motion

I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.

— Kapil Sibal

There's always some reason not to be writing and I regret the times I give in to that, because then writing feels strange -…

— Joan Larkin