Achieve Quote by John Berryman

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

— Billy Squier

I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was…

— Simon Armitage

In recent poems, I have abandoned the theme of not being able to write for an even more obsessive subject, the nature of language,…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

When you write, don't say, "I'm going to write a poem." That attitude will freeze you right away. Sit down with the least expectation…

— Natalie Goldberg

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

— Maxine Kumin

For some reason there's this myth that creativity - [especially] in terms of creative writing - is a gift you either have, or you…

— Sarah Kay

Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult.

— Walter Pater

I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good…

— Edward Hirsch

When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country…

— May Sarton

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

— Emily Susan Rapp

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

Poetry is not easy. Or should I say, real poetry is not easy.

— Robert Pinsky