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I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

— Norman MacCaig

I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't…

— David Antin

I read a lot of prose poetry and get inspired by more-so just a state of mind.

— William Beckett

I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.

— Kapil Sibal

a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time.

— Vladimir Nabokov

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

— Ed Westwick

For me, poetry is a way of thinking, and like many poets, I'm driven by the idea of trying to find the impossible, perfect…

— James Arthur

I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my…

— Natasha Trethewey

I tried to write poems in rhyme. I tried writing songs. Sometimes I jotted down a thought. I would keep a log of spontaneous…

— Chath Piersath

I am interested in the movement of my own thoughts and in trying make the poems feel more accurate to experience, including the experience…

— Rachel Zucker

You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of ecstasy.

— Jennifer Stone