Connections Quote by Edward Hirsch

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

— Emily Susan Rapp

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

— Ed Westwick

...the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry...

— Billy Collins

Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.

— Charles Bukowski

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

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all…

— Lauren Oliver

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

— Norman MacCaig

My poetry is the most disappointing thing for me that I've ever written. When I say I can write everything, I don't say I…

— Jess Walter

Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.

— Trevor McDonald

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

— Billy Squier

“Poetry is simple when you write what you see and feel, searching for the words only makes it difficult”

— Rayvon L. Browne

Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem,…

— Sakyong Mipham