Able Quote by Shirley Geok-lin Lim

When we used to walk to school, I used to read off the walls, graffiti and stuff, everything. I used to write stories, but…

— Jorja Smith

I started then to try and shape something rather than just express it and when I started to shape something and to imitate other…

— Edward Hirsch

Basically when I'm walking I'm not consciously writing or intending anything. In the manner I have learned from meditation practice, I let things unfold.

— Stephen Vincent Benet

The only people who have trouble with poetry are the people who link it with literature. It's much more akin to mountain-walking, and dancing…

— Theo Dorgan

A phrase may come to me as I am walking, and, once I write it down in my journal, the rest of the poem…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

Daydreaming is one of the key sources of poetry - a poem often starts as a daydream that finds its way into language -…

— Edward Hirsch

I wanted to write the kind of poetry that people read and remembered, that they lived by - the kinds of lines that I…

— Tracy K. Smith

I read poetry to save time.

— Marilyn Monroe

I tried to write poems in rhyme. I tried writing songs. Sometimes I jotted down a thought. I would keep a log of spontaneous…

— Chath Piersath

I didn't sit down then and start writing poems, but it was in the back of my mind.

— Edward Hirsch

It helped my lyric writing so much studying poetry. I thought I knew what poetry was before I immersed myself in it. Poetry is…

— Amanda Shires

When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk

— Roald Dahl