Poetry Quote by Shannon Lynette Download Open image ““I was asked once why I write poetry. I said, why do you breath?”” — Shannon Lynette ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry Poetry quotes Writing
“Why do you always quote poetry at me when all I want is a straight answer?” — Mindy McGinnis Copy Share Image
“When asked why I write, I say it is why I breathe. How I make my heart beat with life. It must be done… — Dee Doanes Copy Share Image
“Stop. Watch. Listen. There’s poetry all over. And the thing about poetry? It don’t write itself.” — Bethany House Publishers Copy Share Image
“Poetry, playing with your words until you breathe life into them.” — Morgan Dragonwillow Copy Share Image
“I have to be in a particular mindset to write poetry. I either have to be very depressed or very inspired.” — Nicholas Trandahl Copy Share Image
“One thing has led to the next in my life, but like lines of a poem. I suppose I've thrown in my lot with… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
“You opened the door and I instantly got sucked into your eyes like tiny vacuums.” — Shannon Lynette Copy Share Image
“when you're a poet you can dish out whatever's on your mind and you don't have to apologize for it” — Shannon Lynette Copy Share Image
“I will never apologize for expressing myself. I am who I am as so is my poetry.” — Shannon Lynette Copy Share Image
“I try to decipher if my life lives through my words or if my words become my life.” — Shannon Lynette Copy Share Image
“We are silent haters communicating through memories and tears We are silent lovers communicating through poetry and lyrics” — Shannon Lynette Copy Share Image
“Your life is just a series of catastrophes followed by a poorly executed sword swallowing side show” — Shannon Lynette Copy Share Image
“You never know what's gonna happen if you don't just jump in with open arms.” — Shannon Lynette Copy Share Image
“Your presence resembles a dirty martini, she only drinks it when she’s thirsty.” — Shannon Lynette Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
