Inspirational Quote by Natalie Goldberg

It is never what a poem says that matters, but what it is.

— I. A. Richards

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.

— Peter Davison

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

— Billy Squier

Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.

— C. S. Lewis

I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.

— Mary Oliver

Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.

— Sandra Cisneros

poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing.

— May Sarton

It may be that poetry makes life's nebulous events tangible to me and restores their detail; or conversely, that poetry brings forth the intangible…

— Frank O'Hara

Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters.

— e. e. cummings

To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.

— Lucille Clifton

The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person...

— Czeslaw Milosz

Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson