Answering the phone Quote by Sharon Olds

When you're writing, you're in a totally different zone... I can start a difficult poem and look up at the clock and see to…

— Felix Dennis

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the…

— Wislawa Szymborska

Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than…

— Sherry Turkle

Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence.

— Edward Hirsch

I can write a poem in 10 minutes. I like writing songs; I can write songs in 5 or 10 minutes. My concentration seems very short.

— Shel Silverstein

If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.

— Dianna Daniels Booher

Poetry is about slowing down. You sit and you read something, you read it again, and it reveals a little bit more, and things…

— Mark Strand

Just as with running, there were days that I didnt feel like writing; I wrote anyways.

— Nick Symmonds

The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn,…

— Keith Miller

I write lyrics everyday as I go. I'm always taking notes in my phone whenever I am inspired by something. Most of my writing…

— Vic Fuentes

“A poem isn't finished until it's heard.”

— Jade Foster

One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music, you didn't…

— Jane Hirshfield