Attention Quote by Kathleen Norris

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

— Billy Squier

Now, the process of writing poetry is very messy. Not systematic, never quite the same

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized heart there…

— C.D. Wright

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

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.

— Edward Hirsch

After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end of being…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some set piece…

— Rita Dove

I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.

— Martin Gore

Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's…

— Philip Levine

I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... or lay down on a couch, and…

— Allen Ginsberg

Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.

— Anne Waldman

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

— T. S. Eliot