Borders Quote by Kim Hyesoon

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

— C418

I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.

— Irrfan Khan

Poetry is a process of getting back to the unconscious. Hence, I am always writing-even when I'm not facing the white space. I feel…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

— Robert Penn Warren

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

— Tom Wesselmann

Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.

— Nathalie Sarraute

The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music, you didn't…

— Jane Hirshfield

Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all…

— Lauren Oliver

Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.

— Barbara Tuchman