Break Quote by Ron Padgett

Now, the process of writing poetry is very messy. Not systematic, never quite the same

— Edward Hirsch

As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception.

— Grace Cavalieri

I see the progress typical in some of my poems as starting with something simple and moving into something more demanding. This is certainly…

— Billy Collins

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

“Read poetry every day of your life. Poetry is good because it flexes muscles you don’t use often enough. Poetry expands the senses and…

— Ray Bradbury

I'm not literary, and I'm not academic, and I don't think like a poet, so my stuff will never be like that.

— Tanya Saracho

Poets are immersed in process, and I mean process not as an amorphous blur but as a discipline. The hard work of writing has…

— Kathleen Norris

I can't picture myself starting out aiming to do anything or having much of an agenda.I think in writing a poem, I'm making some…

— Billy Collins

I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.

— Carl Sandburg

I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.

— Edith Södergran

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of

— Tom Holt