Ideas Quote by Maya Angelou

I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in the nature…

— Andrew Motion

I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it,…

— Stella Benson

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

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

— Thomas Lynch

I've not been a prolific poet, and it always seemed to me to be a bad idea to feel that you had to produce…

— James Fenton

I've got mixed feelings about poetry cause done well poetry is fantastic. But not many people are capable of doing it well. I think…

— Craig Ferguson

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

Any work of art makes one very simple demand on anyone who genuinely wants to get in touch with it. And that is to…

— W. S. Merwin

I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and…

— Alice Walker

Lyrics is commissioned work, it is my profession. But poetry is my statement to life.

— Gulzar

I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem, when I'm writing one. Having written one, then you fall away very rapidly…

— Sylvia Plath