Ifs Quote by Jack Nicholson

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

— James Schuyler

My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.

— Henry David Thoreau

I did a weird thing when I was about 24. For four years I had written quite a lot of poetry, and I started…

— Cliff Curtis

I've written poetry most of my life.

— Julia Michaels

I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.

— Ama Ata Aidoo

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

— Michael Helm

There's always some reason not to be writing and I regret the times I give in to that, because then writing feels strange -…

— Joan Larkin

I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

— Jeffery Deaver

Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all…

— Claire Tomalin

I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.

— May Sarton

“Often one spends weeks trying to write a poem out of the conscious mind that never comes to anything - these are sort of…

— Philip Larkin

My advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world -…

— e. e. cummings