Brain Quote by Patrick Rothfuss

The poetry when I was a kid felt like something that I could control, and whether it failed or not, whether it was good…

— Amber Tamblyn

I was intoxicated by the romantic poetry of our great writers. I arranged the world according to my private use, looking at it through…

— Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

I didn't sit down then and start writing poems, but it was in the back of my mind.

— Edward Hirsch

Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual…

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

For me, poetry was... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through.

— Shane Koyczan

A split second later, my life flashed before my eyes, and I came to one important conclusion about it. It was fun while it…

— Darynda Jones

I had - there were three strokes, and I lost my ability to read and write and speak, and it really put me by…

— Ntozake Shange

I felt dull and flat and full of shattered visions.

— Sylvia Plath

The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.

— Pablo Neruda

Staring in the darkness, trying to sleep. My body was aching with tiredness. My limbs were numb. My sightless eyes were crazed with light/…

— Kevin Brooks

I seemed to have spent the whole time either reading, which I loved, or laughing, which I love, or fooling about, which I loved.…

— Philip Pullman

During that long terrible ride to Munich, I finally swallowed the bitter pill of my lover's rejection and poisoned myself with it. I murdered…

— Anonymous