Between the lines Quote by Rakim

Sometimes I have something stuck in my head and that directs the rhyme that I'm writing with.

— Courtney Barnett

I tried to write poems in rhyme. I tried writing songs. Sometimes I jotted down a thought. I would keep a log of spontaneous…

— Chath Piersath

Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it.

— Howard Nemerov

Sometimes I am puzzling over something for months and months and the poem gets created in small bursts and rewritten a hundred times, and…

— Sarah Kay

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

— Norman MacCaig

I sit down and I write what I'm thinking and what I feel - it happens all at once, I never stop writing.

— Lydia Hearst

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off…

— John Ashbery

I write poetry to figure things out. Any time I’m trying to wrap my head around something, poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for…

— Sarah Kay

Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance…

— Margaret Atwood

Poetry is a process of getting back to the unconscious. Hence, I am always writing-even when I'm not facing the white space. I feel…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that…

— Amy Ray

I don't write, I build a rhyme.

— Kool Moe Dee