Always Quote by Robert Pinsky

All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.

— Joseph Joubert

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best argument for teaching poetry is to put a three-year-old or a four-year-old and read Dr. Seuss, or Robert Louis Stevenson, and to…

— Robert Pinsky

“I wrote you this poem because i was afraid/ To come out and tell you i want to get laid.”

— Jake Wizner

I wrote a poem on my leg once, on the skin.

— Michael Madsen

“Will I be less dead because I wrote this poem or you more because you read it long years hence.”

— Maya Angelou

I am not a writer, But I have written Our love story. I am not a poet, But I wrote for you A poem.…

— Ritu Ghatourey

One Christmas I had no money, and so I went home and just, like, wrote a poem; I mean, I didn't write them, but…

— June Diane Raphael

The closer you get to death, the more alive you feel. Dylan Thomas wrote, Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage…

— Christopher Titus

I don't know what started me, I just wrote poetry from the time was quite small. I guess I liked nursery rhymes and I…

— Sylvia Plath

I think Oscar Wilde wrote a poem about a robin who loved a white rose. He loved it so much that he pierced his…

— Mary Pickford

“Once on yellow sheet of paper with green lines, he wrote a poem and he called it “Spot” because that was the name of…

— Earl Reum

You told me I wrote that poem because I was afraid of dealing with myself. And I used my mom as an excuse, accusing…

— Jay Asher

“Jonson wrote a poem and called his son His best piece of poetrie A lovely line a little loathsome I loved that poem once…

— Edward Hirsch

“I wrote my first poem about a bunny. ‘Bunny, bunny, hop hop hop. White and soft like a little mop.”

— Wendy Mass