Let me Quote by Kim Addonizio

Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.

— Trevor McDonald

I'm a lousy writer, and it shows when I try to write poetry.

— C418

The mysterious thing about writing poetry is that when you're - when things are going poorly, when you're not thinking well, even making two…

— Edward Hirsch

My poetry is the most disappointing thing for me that I've ever written. When I say I can write everything, I don't say I…

— Jess Walter

Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.

— C. K. Williams

As soon as I start to write I'm very aware, I'm trying to be aware that a reader just might well pick up this…

— Billy Collins

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

— James Schuyler

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

— Nathalie Sarraute

Many poets, as you know, are not good readers.

— Robert Giroux

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

— Isaac Rosenberg

I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.

— Maxine Kumin

“Never worry about the reader, what the reader can understand. When you are writing, glance over your shoulder, and you’ll find there is no…

— Richard Hugo