Difficult Quote by Matthew Zapruder

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.

— Edward Hirsch

I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it,…

— Stella Benson

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

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into…

— Michael Tippett

... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we…

— Audre Lorde

It may very well be that we have entered another time when most poets will feel compelled to use poetry to stop things from…

— Matthew Zapruder

I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don't mean that everyone can write poetry…

— Adrienne Rich

But it's silly to suggest the writing of poetry is something ethereal, a sort of soul-crashing, devastating emotional experience that wrings you. I have…

— Louise Bogan

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

— Emily Susan Rapp

There's always some reason not to be writing and I regret the times I give in to that, because then writing feels strange -…

— Joan Larkin

We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of…

— Elizabeth Drew

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come…

— Antonin Artaud