Experience Quote by Edward Hirsch

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

— Ed Westwick

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

— Billy Squier

“Writing poetry is a passion, ignited by thoughts, fueled by ink. A way to travel through another mind, where souvenirs of tears are tucked…

— Renee Dixon

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

— Ishmael Reed

The question does arise if how and why to write poetry in this time. It feels both completely essential and also quite difficult. But…

— Matthew Zapruder

Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the…

— Jane Hirshfield

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into…

— Michael Tippett

Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.

— Sonia Sanchez

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

— Emily Susan Rapp

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

— C.D. Wright

“To write or read a poem is . . . to enter into a different kind of thought world from our normal patterns. A…

— N.T. Wright

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of messages.”

— Vanessa M. Chattman