Poetry Quote by Maxine Kumin Download Open image “I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.” — Maxine Kumin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry Wanted Writing
I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it. — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
I write, but I don't write poetry. I don't rhyme or anything like that. — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months. — Tom Wesselmann Copy Share Image
Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it. — Trevor McDonald Copy Share Image
I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself. — James Schuyler Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days. — Kapil Sibal Copy Share Image
Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying. — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
There is an extraordinary degree of amity among Washington poets. They hang together. You would be hard pressed to find that in Manhattan. — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever felt terribly comfortable writing about my body. First of all, I think I took my body for granted for… — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
And the pond's stillness nippled as if by rain instead is pocked with life. — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image