Confidence Quote by Jean-Paul Malfatti

I wrote poetry in a secretive way, I think, a secret from myself, I mean. I wrote it because it gave me great pleasure…

— Philip Schultz

I like to write, I like to reflect, and not just poetry, I like to write my thoughts down. I think it's good for…

— J. J. Redick

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'm finding that writing poetry is strengthening my songwriting, because you're learning to make a piece of writing work on a page with nothing…

— PJ Harvey

I don't spend time thinking about an aesthetic out of which I create or an ideal toward which my body of work is heading.…

— Albert Goldbarth

Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being…

— Vikram Seth

I guess what inspires me most is the desire to draw out feelings that feel best expressed on the written page by really good…

— Guy Maddin

Sometimes I feel too transparent in my poetry, but that's what I think the beauty of poetry is, because as transparent as the author…

— Masiela Lusha

I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it,…

— Stella Benson

With writing, I think you have to be honest with yourself. I have a certain kind of writing; that is, I like to really…

— Sylvester Stallone

Even though novels were the love of my life, I started off writing poetry. I think because I had a knack for image and…

— Melissa Febos

The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else…

— Marilyn Hacker