Advice Quote by Edmund Wilson

Don't talk to me any more about poetry for months -- unless it is other men's work. I really love verse, even rubbish. But…

— D. H. Lawrence

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

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

Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try…

— Robert W. Service

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

You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a…

— Phyllis Gotlieb

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were…

— C. Day Lewis

I use poetry to explain myself to myself. It is a way of investigating who you really are, what you feel, what survives the…

— Jonathan W. Galassi

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

What I try to do is to keep emotion on a tight leash; otherwise, it can never be transubstantiated into poetry.

— Kiki Dimoula

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 always feel vulnerable talking about the poetry aspect of my career because it's little diary entries that I need to sometimes close read,…

— Masiela Lusha