On Writing Poetry Quotes

On Writing Poetry Quote of the day

I am looking for a poem that says Everything so I don't have to write anymore.

I write lyrics everyday as I go. I'm always taking notes in my phone whenever I am inspired by something. Most of my writing starts out as poetry before I put it into songs.

A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his poetry - it is he who is a poet.

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry

There are only three things in the world, one is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is to live poetry.

The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.

I think that in the process of writing, all kinds of unexpected things happen that shift the poet away from his plan and that these accidents are really what we mean when we talk about poetry.

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.

Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

Writing poetry is a pleasure,...a pleasure out of hell

We cannot overlook the importance of wild country as source of inspiration, to which we give expression in writing, in poetry, drawing and painting, in mountaineering, or in just being there.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

Take your materials from what is around you - if you see a dandelion, write about that; if it's misty, write about the mist. The materials for poetry are all about you in profusion.

There is something about writing poetry that brings a man close to the cliff's edge.

I always thought that writing poetry was in itself a political act.

Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters.

He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages.

But you hate poetry! Yes, but you make me want to write it.

If i write a book it will probably be a book about how not to use the internet or a book of poetry.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat.

In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice.

poems are small moments of enlightenment

I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch.

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.

I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.

If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best.

The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

I used to do poetry and write stories and stuff - I never really had anybody standing over my shoulder, like, "What did you write? Let me hear it." I hate that type of stuff.

Water is the ink that writes the poetry of life.

You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.

When Rimbaud became a slave trader, he stopped writing poetry.

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense; it has particular ways of catching an environment.

...after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door.

I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.

I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.

I don't write toward a genre, and I try not to make claim to a genre after a book is published. That said, The Guardians isn't poetry. It's prose.

If I knew how to say it directly, I would not need to write poetry. I would just talk to people and be happy.

I’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.