Perfect Quote by Nick Laird

Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem,…

— Sakyong Mipham

What writing a poem really does - and what figuring how to perform effectively really does - is forces people to listen to you.…

— Daveed Diggs

I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row,…

— Ron Rash

But it's silly to suggest the writing of poetry is something ethereal, a sort of soul-crashing, devastating emotional experience that wrings you. I have…

— Louise Bogan

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

— Ellen Hopkins

I use poetry to explain myself to myself. It is a way of investigating who you really are, what you feel, what survives the…

— Jonathan W. Galassi

Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all…

— Lauren Oliver

To me, poetry is a rational act. I never write a poem if I'm not sure what I am going to say or what…

— Luljeta Lleshanaku

Part of writing is discovering the rules of the game and then deciding whether to follow the rules or to break them. The great…

— Billy Collins

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

— Edward Hirsch

The mysterious thing about writing poetry is that when you're - when things are going poorly, when you're not thinking well, even making two…

— Edward Hirsch

There is poetry in fiction. If you cannot see it and feel it when you write, you need to step back and examine what…

— Terry Brooks