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Poets are immersed in process, and I mean process not as an amorphous blur but as a discipline. The hard work of writing has…

— Kathleen Norris

I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume.

— Grazia Deledda

But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.

— Sylvia Plath

Take your materials from what is around you - if you see a dandelion, write about that; if it's misty, write about the mist.…

— Masaoka Shiki

Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.

— Peter Porter

I link what I do more to poetry usually because it sounds less lofty than a lot of other things.

— Rick Owens

When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing…

— Margaret Atwood

I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.

— J. Michael Straczynski

I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language…

— Rita Mae Brown

Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.

— Sandra Cisneros

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

— Michael Helm

Most of the poems I write go through forty versions and then stay in a file on my computer. I'm not very good at…

— Nick Laird