Essays Quote by Kathleen Rooney

Poem in other words may or may not result from inspiration but must (in reader and author alike) produce it--

— Franz Wright

To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.

— Lucille Clifton

Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.

— C. S. Lewis

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of messages.”

— Vanessa M. Chattman

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

— Sandra Cisneros

A good poem is an amazing thing: a perfectly distilled, articulate moment. It opens you up - sometimes slowly, like the blooming of a…

— Celeste Ng

There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop.

— Augustus William Hare

It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of…

— Philip Larkin

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages. ”

— Vanessa M. Chattman

It's difficult to put your own bare ass out on the limb every time you sit down to write a poem. But that's really…

— Sam Hamill

I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row,…

— Ron Rash

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

— Ezra Pound