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Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.

— James Dickey

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

— Honore de Balzac

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

— Thomas Lynch

I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work.

— Joy Harjo

This is the nature of love." Vashet said. "To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. This is what keeps poets scribbling…

— Patrick Rothfuss

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

— Trevor McDonald

A number of poems don't work alone. They need to fit together to work.

— Martha Ronk

Even a poet cannot get everything right.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

— C. K. Williams

You can break a poets heart, but you can't easily break his pen

— Marky Goldstein