Myself Quote by Kunal Kapoor

I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.

— Abraham Verghese

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

— C418

I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

— Honore de Balzac

Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's…

— Philip Levine

“When somebody discusses my work with me and peruses a poem or two, they get to see a piece of who I am. Because…

— Nicholas Trandahl

I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.

— Michael Helm

I'm not a poet. So the writing process is a difficult one for me.

— Billy Squier

My work should be seen as poetry.

— Robert Wilson

“What’s the use of writing poetry for your peers? I don’t think I should sell my poetry to other poets. If that’s who my…

— Harley King

Any work of art makes one very simple demand on anyone who genuinely wants to get in touch with it. And that is to…

— W. S. Merwin

I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in the nature…

— Andrew Motion

I wanted to write not exclusively for (or against) poets or scholars, though many of them are people, too! But that was not my…

— Matthew Zapruder