Blockbuster Quote by Tennessee Williams

with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole life long,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Every poem probably has sixty drafts behind it.

— Mary Karr

Weirdly, it's much easier to write a poem than a film.

— Tim Key

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

The poet lives as long as his lines are imprinted on the minds of his readers.

— Alan Bold

Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.

— Francine Pascal

“The greatest thing about being a writer is the fact you never have to learn lines - you get to write them! ”

— Neill Bartlett

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

— Frederick Busch

I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to write.

— Benjamin Clementine

My first gig ever was writing looplines for a movie that had already been made. You know, writing lines over somebody's back to explain…

— Joss Whedon

“It only takes one line, from one poem to change your world...What has poetry done for you lately?”

— David S. Cross

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

— Ishmael Reed