Better Quote by Kamal Haasan

I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and screenplays, but I always, always…

— Blake Jenner

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

— Sandra Cisneros

I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language…

— Rita Mae Brown

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 don't do much of anything consciously in writing - in poetry writing, anyway, prose usually being a different matter, of course.

— Ron Padgett

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

— Sylvia Plath

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 write poetry in order to live more fully.

— Judith Rodriguez

I never wrote poetry, just prose. I don't really consider songwriting a form of poetry either. The words are important, of course, but they're…

— Michael Gira

I'm finding that writing poetry is strengthening my songwriting, because you're learning to make a piece of writing work on a page with nothing…

— PJ Harvey

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

— Channing Tatum

I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which…

— Jesmyn Ward