Abandoned Quote by Shirley Geok-lin Lim

There's always some reason not to be writing and I regret the times I give in to that, because then writing feels strange -…

— Joan Larkin

I have never felt inhibited in trying to write as well as the greatest English poets.

— Derek Walcott

“I have sometimes told people, probably wrongly, that there’s no point in writing at all if you don’t feel that there’s something you absolutely…

— Scarlett Thomas

I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.

— Michael Helm

I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write. I think all poets must feel this: that there…

— Carol Ann Duffy

I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner…

— William Saroyan

I don't want to write poems that are just really clear about how I'm aware of all the traps involved in writing poetry; I…

— Ben Lerner

I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.

— Michel de Montaigne

“All writers are demonic dreamers. Writing is an act of sharing experiences and offering of an individualistic perspective of our private attitudes pertaining to…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“We have many shelves of poetry at home, but still, it takes an effort to step out of the daily narrative of existence, draw…

— Ian McEwan

“Very early on, near the beginning of my writing life, I came to believe that I had to seize on some object outside of…

— Zbigniew Herbert

“Often one spends weeks trying to write a poem out of the conscious mind that never comes to anything - these are sort of…

— Philip Larkin