Plans Quote by Rumi

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.

— Rumi

I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.

— John Cage

“That is what all the poets do: they talk to themselves outloud and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear…

— George Bernard Shaw

I have nothing to say. And I am saying it. That's poetry.

— John Wain

I need more and more silence, it feels. Poems don't leap into my mind when I'm distracted, turned outward, with other people, listening to…

— Jane Hirshfield

Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.

— Trevor McDonald

My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the…

— Anna Kamienska

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear…

— George Bernard Shaw

“I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry as I need it.”

— John Cage

“That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them”

— George Bernard Shaw

And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.

— Virginia Woolf

My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.

— Jean Cocteau