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I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous. — James Dickey

Travellers are just commuters with a wider perspective. — William G. Taylor

I'm an old-fashioned guy. — Demian Bichir

Now I'm a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality. — Robert Plant

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

It is a disappointment to me to spawn a child who feels so deeply. I would like to refute the idea that to feel somehow makes you a better person. — Deborah Levy

As I published books, I realized, that's not really what I want. I don't care about the books as much anymore. I just want to write poetry. — Victoria Chang

The past hadn't been erased just because a new future had been handed it. — Susan Meissner

Poetry, playing with your words until you breathe life into them. — Morgan Dragonwillow

When you write about what you dream, you become a writer.
When you dream about what you write, you become haunted by a curse. — A. Saleh

Writing poetry is about learning to pare down the poem to the most essential words. Every word used has to be crucial to the poem. — Harley King

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there. — Billy Graham

I could write novels about her forever. Maybe when I die I will end up in the poem with her writing more poems about our times together.' The Diary — Jeremy Limn

There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see. — Paul Muldoon

The man is in his work,read it if you want to know about him. — R.M. Engelhardt

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make. — Truman Capote

I'm merely dying to be remembered for simply writing about my living memories — Michael Biondi

I began writing poetry when I was about 10. Bad poetry, but you start with bad poetry. — Jonas Mekas

Writing poetry, which for me was then saying how I felt about this and that, didn't help me to understand the world I lived in. — Grace Paley

When you talk to family and friends, they can't tell you anything from an impartial point of view because they have a vested interest in you. — Brian O'Driscoll

Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem, it kind of gets to the point. — Sakyong Mipham

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

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry. — Norman MacCaig

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

He has your finger, but I have your heart. — Brian Celio

Rae Carson's heroine is a perfect blend of the ordinary and the extraordinary. I loved her. — Megan Whalen Turner

It's not easy to write a poem about a poem. — Dejan Stojanovic

Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation. — Wislawa Szymborska

It ain't so easy writing about nothin — Patti Smith

I actually can't listen to music and write poetry at the same time, but I do kind of think about the music I've been listening to when I write. — Shane McCrae

I keep thinking about blood, I dream about it. Wake up thinking about it. Pretty soon I'll be writing morbid emo poetry about it. — Cassandra Clare

God's plan remains God's plan despite our sin. — Christopher West

The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor. — Sherwood Anderson

Having their muscles manipulated by the future king proved too much from some of the girls, who descended into fits of giggles. — Katie Nicholl

I heard the breeze whisper your name to the trees. And the flowers giggled smiling at the leaves. I and my loneliness keep talking about you. — Avijeet Das

There's two kinds of women
those you write poems about and those you don't. — Jeffrey McDaniel

Poetry allows me to write about what I don't know, whereas journalism demands a higher level of certainty to be worthy of being written. — Eliza Griswold

I would say my life experiences are my poetry, whether I'm writing about those actual, factual experiences or not. — Dorianne Laux

The crazy thing about poetry is how its simplicity makes it complicated. — Richelle E. Goodrich

They are in a dilemma, they are in trouble now. Hate them and strike them. — Saddam Hussein

As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store. — William H Gass

Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal, than accused of deficiency in the graces. — Lyndon B. Johnson