Chance Quote by Steve Erickson

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'd been writing poems for many years, but most of them I didn't like. Then, when I was 23, I wrote one I did…

— Siri Hustvedt

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

— Frederick Busch

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

As you continue writing and rewriting, you begin to see possibilities you hadn't seen before. Writing a poem is always a process of discovery.

— Robert Hayden

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by…

— Nicholson Baker

I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.

— Ernesto Cardenal

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

— Edward Hirsch

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

— Robert Frost

I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem, when I'm writing one. Having written one, then you fall away very rapidly…

— Sylvia Plath

I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in the nature…

— Andrew Motion

I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter…

— Justin Townes Earle