Inspirational Quote by Tukaram

I want to make a poem of my life.

— Yukio Mishima

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

— Andrew Motion

My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.

— Henry David Thoreau

Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

— Steve Earle

Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.

— Trevor McDonald

Write the poem only you can write.

— Billy Collins

I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.

— Natasha Trethewey

“Some poems take us places where no words reach, no thought, they take you up to the core itself, life stops for one moment…

— Jón Kalman Stefánsson

A poem can use anything to talk about anything.

— Jane Hirshfield

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.

— Anonymous

The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.

— Marguerite Young

Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.

— C. K. Williams