Can do Quote by Gwendolyn Brooks

Once considered an art form that called for talent, or at least a craft that called for practice, a poem now needs only sincerity.…

— Barbara Holland

I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.

— Michael Helm

To me, poetry is a rational act. I never write a poem if I'm not sure what I am going to say or what…

— Luljeta Lleshanaku

I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words,…

— Kurt Cobain

I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

— Honore de Balzac

It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than…

— Orson F. Whitney

I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say…

— James Laughlin

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

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

— John Fowles

I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is…

— Leonard Cohen

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

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

— Trevor McDonald