Able Quote by Kate Braverman

Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on,…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it's light, and sometimes it gets very dark.

— The Weeknd

The reader who is illuminated is, in a real sense, the poem.

— H. M. Tomlinson

Writing that gets rewritten as the earth moves. If you look at the sky that way, it's this massive shifting poem, or maybe a…

— Maria Dahvana Headley

I suppose I have written novels to find out what I thought about something and poems to find out what I felt about something.

— May Sarton

For me, the poetry in a work is that which makes visible the invisible.

— Nathalie Sarraute

I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.

— Mahmoud Darwish

I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.

— May Sarton

“Poetry is the essence of life in which twinkling lights tickle the minds of readers and take them to a world where no one…

— Debasish Mridha

I don't really have a metaphor for how I write, but it kinda feels like chipping away at a big dark object that I…

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw…

— Anne Lamott

Sometimes I am puzzling over something for months and months and the poem gets created in small bursts and rewritten a hundred times, and…

— Sarah Kay