Cupboards Quote by Jane Kenyon

I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.

— Irrfan Khan

The ear writes my poems, not the mind.

— Stanley Kunitz

I'm a lousy writer, and it shows when I try to write poetry.

— C418

When you're doing poetry like mine that rhymes, it's very easy to sound like a song that didn't work out!

— John Cooper Clarke

I have to reach "the poetry condition" to write. Then it is as if the border around me is thinned or blurred or erased…

— Kim Hyesoon

Sometimes I have something stuck in my head and that directs the rhyme that I'm writing with.

— Courtney Barnett

Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear.

— Thomas Lynch

When I hear something, I hear it - it doesn't take me three, four, five times to hear a song and say, 'OK, let's…

— Keyshia Cole

Compose aloud: poetry is a sound. Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader, but is…

— Basil Bunting

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the…

— Wislawa Szymborska

Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.

— James Dickey

I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked.…

— Anne Stevenson