Hell Quote by Kenneth Slessor

Some poems are written great, some poems are written swell. But then there are poems that could win a prize in Hell.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Poetry is God's work.

— Katy Lederer

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

— Cesare Pavese

I really enjoy doing my poems. So that's it; I'm condemned in some way to be a poet.

— Tim Key

You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a…

— Phyllis Gotlieb

“poetry is the tombstone of experience, nothing i write is my own. ~from "the damned”

— D.W.Metz

There's nothing wrong with delighting in what you do. In fact, most of the fun you'll have as a poet will come about during…

— Ted Kooser

Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.

— Alice Walker

It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to…

— Honore de Balzac

Writing just for the hell of it is heaven.

— Julia Cameron

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

— Antonin Artaud

I love to write poetry.

— Shayne Ward