Disappointing Quote by Jess Walter

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

— Emily Susan Rapp

Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.

— Trevor McDonald

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

— Michael Helm

The mysterious thing about writing poetry is that when you're - when things are going poorly, when you're not thinking well, even making two…

— Edward Hirsch

I write, but I don't write poetry. I don't rhyme or anything like that.

— Channing Tatum

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

— Nathalie Sarraute

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

— C418

You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch with to…

— Edward Hirsch

Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.

— Alice Notley

For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything.

— Langston Hughes

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 wrote poetry in middle school and high school and even through college. It was bad. I just don't think I'm very good at…

— Jesmyn Ward