Ifs Quote by Philip Larkin

“In another life I would have liked to be a poet, I just can’t stop the lines in time, so I’m a novelist.”

— Colum McCann

“Poetry is not life. Life is poetry.”

— Laurence Overmire

“On the contrary I am not a poet, I am just a writer who happens to write poetry.”

— Kenneth G. Ortiz

“My life has been the poem I could have writ But I could not both live and utter it.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.”

— W.H. Auden

“If poetry is what you live for then do it write.”

— R.M. Engelhardt

“Writing a novel is just like life ... it's only in the doing of it that I find out what works.”

— Angela Young

“If you want something different in your life...You must do something different with your life. unknown author”

— John E. Forster

“Poets don’t run out of material the way novelists do because they don’t depend on material in the same way.”

— Julian Barnes

“I do not write poetry; I take words and dip them in feelings.”

— Arti Honrao

“life is not a poem, nor a paragraph, it is a sentence, i can end it at anytime”

— Dani Lambias

“I may not be able to say these words to you but that doesn't mean I can't say it to the rest of the…

— Tammy-Louise Wilkins