Things Quote by Walter Becker

“...writing surrounds us: it's not something we do just in school or on the job but something that is as familiar and everyday as…

— Andrea A. Lunsford

But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.

— Philip Levine

“Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.”

— Wallace Stevens

That's how life is: there are peaks and valleys in life, and that's how I like to write songs.

— Mark Foster

A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.

— Jay-Z

A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.

— Helen Vendler

Most of the time I'm not really attracted to writing that's focused on filling and fighting it out within a well-defined container. I like…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

“Writing is the voices inside our heads, our minds, the creativity that exists for us to, from nothing, create alternate worlds, manipulate a personality…

— Allie Burke

“The writer's job is to turn the unspeakable into words - not just any words, but, if you can, into rhythm and blues.”

— Anne Lamott

“Human beings innate complexities resist reduction into simple sentences and neat paragraphs. The stories that come nearest to expressing the ambivalent nature of people…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of messages.”

— Vanessa M. Chattman

“Writing is more than a craft; it is a way of life. Everything you see or do becomes part of what you write.”

— H.P. Oliver