Fear Quote by Jake Wizner

“You are the poem I never knew how to write and this life is the story I have always wanted to tell.”

— Tyler Knott Gregson

“What, you don’t think I’m capable of poetry after sex?”

— Richelle Mead

“This poem is the poem I'm writing because we aren't speaking, and it is making my heart hurt so bad that sometimes I can't…

— Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

“I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.”

— Jaime Gil de Biedma

“Don't be afraid of poetry.”

— Clifton Fadiman

“It is dishonest to give me a poem and pretend to want my opinion when what you really want are reasons to live.”

— Deborah Levy

“I don't know how to write poetry, because I am the poetry.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“I do not write poetry; I take words and dip them in feelings.”

— Arti Honrao

“She would make me tell her, too, all about the poems that I meant to compose. And these dreams reminded me that, since I…

— Marcel Proust

“I have to be in a particular mindset to write poetry. I either have to be very depressed or very inspired.”

— Nicholas Trandahl

“Poetry is the fellatio of the mind, but there's nothing there.”

— the mag man

“Writing poetry is like having sex with the universe and the language is just a condom.”

— TRIPURARI