Abandonment Quote by Kim Hyesoon

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

— Alice Walker

I never feel more myself than when I’m writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.

— Anthony Minghella

I feel often very close to the ecstasy and anguish which lie at the very heart of poetry - I am writing a lot.

— May Sarton

Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel…

— Aaron Belz

Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my…

— Erica Jong

As a sick kid, I always looked out the window. The objects of my observation were the sun, the seasons, the wind, crazy people,…

— Kim Hyesoon

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

— Sylvia Plath

When I'm writing, I write every day. It's lovely when that's happening. One day dovetailing into the next. Sometimes I don't even know what…

— Raymond Carver

I guess my poems feel to me a bit like they are doing something in relation to experience, i.e. time.

— Matthew Zapruder

I feel most at home when I am writing a poem—because in that instant, I am everywhere.

— Nathalie Handal

We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of…

— Elizabeth Drew

I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer…

— Barbara Kingsolver