Numbers Quote by Mark Strand

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

And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.

— Peter Davison

More people write poetry than read it.

— George Carlin

one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for…

— Edward Hirsch

There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

It's difficult to put your own bare ass out on the limb every time you sit down to write a poem. But that's really…

— Sam Hamill

“Considering the ways in which so many of us waste our time, what would be wrong with a world in which everybody were writing…

— Ted Kooser

A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what…

— Matthea Harvey

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

— Thomas Lynch

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

— Voltaire