Angela Quote by Junot Diaz

They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.

— Tom Glazer

I use poetry to explain myself to myself. It is a way of investigating who you really are, what you feel, what survives the…

— Jonathan W. Galassi

I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better…

— Mark Twain

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the…

— Adrienne Rich

Well, putting words on paper isn't your job. Your job is to go digging around in your soul. And that's the end of it…

— Radney Foster

But the sensibility of the writer, whether fiction or poetry, comes from paying attention. I tell my students that writing doesn't begin when you…

— Julia Alvarez

Poetry is supposed to be musical. But people don't understand prose. They're so used to reading journalism - clunky, functional sentences that convey factual…

— Jonathan Lethem

the poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be...

— Bruce Springsteen

Poets tend to form loose groups - the "Romantics" or the "Imagists". And sometimes they write manifestoes in the name of these groups. This…

— Rae Armantrout

I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

— Honore de Balzac

The whole point of writing poetry or fiction is that you get to agonize over whatever it is you want to say, and you…

— Nick Laird