Being true Quote by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult.

— Walter Pater

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

— Sylvia Plath

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

— Michael Helm

I write the occasional poem. I think my dabbling in poetry makes me better at screenplays. Poetry teaches the value of condensing, the importance…

— Kamal Haasan

I love poetry, but I find it so difficult to write well.

— Emily Susan Rapp

I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.

— Mary Oliver

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

— John Fowles

We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write in words

— John Fowles

I love to write poetry.

— Shayne Ward

To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem.

— Pattiann Rogers

Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.

— Sandra Cisneros

Poetry, for me, conveys the essence of narrative rather than its particulars.

— Delia Sherman