Gods Quote by Phyllis Gotlieb

Poetry is God's work.

— Katy Lederer

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

Don't talk to me any more about poetry for months -- unless it is other men's work. I really love verse, even rubbish. But…

— D. H. Lawrence

Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.

— Seamus Heaney

but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry.

— Charles Bukowski

If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.

— Mary Webb

I know when I go to a poetry reading, I feel purged, exulted. You let the poet guide you through some kind of journey.

— Anne Waldman

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

— Ed Westwick

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression…

— Alfred Nobel

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

— Billy Squier

While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think…

— Thom Gunn

Poetry is how I feed the soul, and it's how I fire the furnace of writing.

— Luis Alberto Urrea