Categories Quote by Marianne Moore

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

— Marianne Moore

I write, but I don't write poetry. I don't rhyme or anything like that.

— Channing Tatum

I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the…

— Tennessee Williams

Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.

— Alice Notley

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

— David Duchovny

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

— Michael Helm

I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple…

— Bo Burnham

Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I myself always want to talk about "poetry," not "the poem."

— Paul Fry

I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.

— Mary Oliver

To me, poetry is a rational act. I never write a poem if I'm not sure what I am going to say or what…

— Luljeta Lleshanaku

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

— John Fowles