Down Quote by Maxine Kumin

I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.

— Michael Helm

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

— Emily Susan Rapp

I don't want to write poems that are just really clear about how I'm aware of all the traps involved in writing poetry; I…

— Ben Lerner

I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.

— Mary Oliver

“Often one spends weeks trying to write a poem out of the conscious mind that never comes to anything - these are sort of…

— Philip Larkin

I don't know if there are topics that I unconsciously avoid, but as soon as they pop up in my writing, I try to…

— Denise Duhamel

Actually, my first literary heroes were the Romantic poets, so I began to get serious by writing poems. I have notebooks full of them…

— John Dufresne

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

One good way to start writing poetry is to read all kinds of poetry: not just in order to imitate but to fill up…

— Valerie Worth

Its not easy to write a poem about a poem.

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— Edward Hirsch

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