Books Quote by May Sarton

I suppose I have written novels to find out what I thought about something and poems to find out what I felt about something.

— May Sarton

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

— Ed Westwick

I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of limits of…

— John Updike

I've written poetry most of my life.

— Julia Michaels

I prefer always to think that I am creating a book, not a series of stand-alone poems.

— Martha Ronk

I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

— Jeffery Deaver

I write poems to find out why I write them

— Stephen Dobyns

I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.

— May Sarton

I love poetry and I've kept everything I've written.

— Neil Warnock

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

— William Beckett

I write poems to figure things out

— Sarah Kay

As far as poetry, I don't know if I've ever written any. I've read a lot. I just write and it comes out in…

— Henry Rollins