Great man Quote by Mark Strand

But I think for me, writing poetry when I was younger really helped me to condense an idea or a story into only so…

— Arlo Parks

To think of writing poetry as a "career" is not only ridiculous, it's dangerous. To the imagination. To the way one thinks of art.…

— Cate Marvin

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

— Alice Notley

The whole process of having to put the thing into the world seems so antithetical to the act of writing. Poetry is slightly easier,…

— Nick Laird

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

— Jerry B. Jenkins

Writing is a bit like walking into a big bookstore. It's the bookstore of your brain, and you know you're never going to read…

— Mary Jo Salter

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

— Ishmael Reed

I would not recommend poetry as a career. In the first place, it's impossible in this time and place - in this culture -…

— Maxine Kumin

I'm finding that writing poetry is strengthening my songwriting, because you're learning to make a piece of writing work on a page with nothing…

— PJ Harvey

The mysterious thing about writing poetry is that when you're - when things are going poorly, when you're not thinking well, even making two…

— Edward Hirsch

Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something…

— Richard Wilbur

When I devoted myself to poetry - and poetry is a very serious medium - I don't think the people that knew me as…

— Ana Castillo