Free-verse-poetry Quote by Fran Lebowitz

“Poetry is one of the easiest forms of writing; as long as you're willing to sell your soul to the world.”

— Shawna Platt (Angel Shadow

“What’s the use of writing poetry for your peers? I don’t think I should sell my poetry to other poets. If that’s who my…

— Harley King

“When somebody discusses my work with me and peruses a poem or two, they get to see a piece of who I am. Because…

— Nicholas Trandahl

I'm very clever at hiding poems perhaps more clever than I am at writing them.

— Charles Bukowski

It is always better to write for the whole of society than for the poetry-reading public.

— Tony Harrison

To write good poems is the secret of brevity.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“There are anonymous poems and poets without poems.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Writing without responsibility is like taking out your cloths in public and begging people to not look at you.”

— M.F.Moonzajer

A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession.

— Jorie Graham

“(I also occasionally write poems, after first explaining carefully to the audience and myself that I am not a poet and this is not…

— T. Kingfisher

A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen.

— Cecil Day-Lewis