Believe Quote by Derek Walcott

I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.

— Denise Levertov

When you're really caught up in writing a poem, it can be a form of prayer. I'm not very good at praying, but what…

— Denise Levertov

I think poetry has started to take on a supplementary role of prayer for some people. The churches, I think, including my own, are…

— Kevin Hart

Poetry and prayer are very similar

— Carol Ann Duffy

Poetry to me is prayer.

— Anne Sexton

“Poetry is a prayer.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.

— Samuel Beckett

“Prayer is that which conveys a message to God, who is either known or knowing, more or less by definition. Poetry is that which…

— G.C. Waldrep

writing is the most personal form of prayer.

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

— Natasha Trethewey

In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

— Denise Levertov

One of the ways in which I feel close to God is writing poetry.

— Christian Wiman