Books Quote by Jesmyn Ward

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by…

— Nicholson Baker

I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative.

— Andre Dubus

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the…

— William Faulkner

I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.

— Michael Helm

Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.

— Sandra Cisneros

I write the occasional poem. I think my dabbling in poetry makes me better at screenplays. Poetry teaches the value of condensing, the importance…

— Kamal Haasan

I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the hard work…

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

I really came to literature through poetry.

— Cheryl Strayed

I love poetry, but I find it so difficult to write well.

— Emily Susan Rapp

one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of limits of…

— John Updike

I'm not a poet. So the writing process is a difficult one for me.

— Billy Squier