Lost Quote by Jeanette Winterson

I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.

— Edith Södergran

I find I cannot exist without Poetry

— John Keats

I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.

— Maxine Kumin

And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream…

— Paul Gauguin

In this story I am the poet You're the poetry.

— Arzum Uzun

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

— David Carradine

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

— Henry David Thoreau

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

— Carl Sandburg

As you continue writing and rewriting, you begin to see possibilities you hadn't seen before. Writing a poem is always a process of discovery.

— Robert Hayden

“Poetry is simple when you write what you see and feel, searching for the words only makes it difficult”

— Rayvon L. Browne

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

— Robert Frost

Write the poem only you can write.

— Billy Collins