Felt Quote by Derek Walcott

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

I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write. I think all poets must feel this: that there…

— Carol Ann Duffy

I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better…

— Mark Twain

In recent poems, I have abandoned the theme of not being able to write for an even more obsessive subject, the nature of language,…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

— Nathalie Sarraute

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

I never had much education in English poetry as such,

— Anne Carson

Many poets, as you know, are not good readers.

— Robert Giroux

I'm not a poet. So the writing process is a difficult one for me.

— Billy Squier

I love poetry, but I find it so difficult to write well.

— Emily Susan Rapp

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

— Neil Gaiman

I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.

— Michael Helm