Poetry Quote by James Tate

“Write like God.”

— Max Adams

“When a poet settled down to write a poem, could he foresee the lines he would write? Did his head constantly spin with riddles…

— Alysha Speer

“I was smarter than him because I had a pen and God was my writer.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“Thus he always wrote using a pencil with a long, sharp but soft lead, so he couldn't here his words as they formed on…

— Jacqueline Winspear

“More and more I don't have any philosophy about writing, except that it is something we can do if God is good to us.…

— M.V. Carey

“Why did Baudelaire — why does anyone — write poetry, in the teeth of all the evidence that one wants you to do so?…

— Walter Martin

He found himself wanting to write poetry about how her blue eyes were like starlight and her hair like night, because "night" and "starlight"…

— Cassandra Clare

“They think the way to be a poet is to wear funny clothes and write sideways on the page.”

— Richard Yates

“So much depends upon the transparent G-tube erupting from the gut of the blue-lipped boy. So much depends upon this observer of the universe"......."And…

— John Green

“People were made of nothing so much as dust, and I couldn't see that doctoring all that dust was a bit better than writing…

— Sylvia Plath

“I am only a pencil in the hand of God, but it is He who writes.”

— Mother Teresa

“He had written in cheap ballpoint ink that had blotted the five pages in many places. His handwriting was a looping but legible scrawl,…

— Stephen King