Figures Quote by Sarah Kay

Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent…

— Sarah Kay

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

— Ed Westwick

I write poems to figure things out

— Sarah Kay

I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.

— Margaret Atwood

Things that I have a hard time being able to fully grasp, sometimes writing the poem helps me work through it. Or I get…

— Sarah Kay

For me, poetry is a way of thinking, and like many poets, I'm driven by the idea of trying to find the impossible, perfect…

— James Arthur

What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go…

— Paul Muldoon

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

Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.

— Sandra Cisneros

I love poetry. If my mind gets a bit tight or bound up with information or depressed with bad news, I find a good…

— Mark Rylance

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

— Norman MacCaig

I use poetry to help me work through what I don’t understand, but I show up to each new poem with a backpack full…

— Sarah Kay