Human Quote by Edward Hirsch

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

— John Fowles

We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write in words

— John Fowles

Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great…

— Madeleine L'Engle

For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.

— Robin Morgan

The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky…

— Janet Fitch

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.

— Edward Hirsch

In fact, sometimes traveling the world is a way of not writing a poem, but it's the quality of experience. It's being able to…

— Rita Dove

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

— Billy Squier

Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.

— Sandra Cisneros

After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end of being…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is no use thinking that writing of poems - the actual writing - can accommodate itself to a social setting, even the most…

— Mary Oliver

Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.

— Gao Xingjian