Country Quote by May Sarton

Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I'm not a poet. So the writing process is a difficult one for me.

— Billy Squier

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

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for…

— Edward Hirsch

Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.

— C. K. Williams

When you write poetry you are always addressing the world somehow.

— John Cooper Clarke

I've written poetry most of my life.

— Julia Michaels

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

— Norman MacCaig

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

— May Sarton

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

— Vincent Van Gogh

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

— Emily Susan Rapp