Poem Writing Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Poem Writing

Poem Writing Quotes & Sayings

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When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done. — Gwendolyn Brooks

And what I've found over time is that for me to write a poem that I think is worthy that I can live with, two things have to happen. — Edward Hirsch

Poems are never finished - just abandoned — Paul Valery

sometimes i am not sure.
if i am
writing the poem
or the poem
is writing me. — Sanober Khan

Give a poet a pen — A. Jarrell Hayes

This poem was meant
to be unwritten.
But I am writing it now
and have thereby changed
destiny. — Kamand Kojouri

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. — Booker T. Washington

A good poem contains both meaning and music — Eve Merriam

Love is a poem that keeps on writing itself, sweeping us along. — Patricia Robin Woodruff

If I were to choose between the power of writing a poem and the ecstasy of a poem unwritten, I would choose the ecstasy. It is better poetry. — Kahlil Gibran

Thoughts are ideas scattered in your head. When written forms a sentence. When rhymed, it forms a phrase and singing it blooms a beautiful poem. — Ymatruz

She is dying because she said.
She is dying for the sake of the word.
It is her body, silent
and fingerless, writing this poem. — Margaret Atwood

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

The true poem rests between the words. — Vanna Bonta

I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes and they went into a poem. — Benjamin Clementine

I write to understand what I know. — Kamand Kojouri

I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love. — Walt Whitman

He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem. — Thomas Carlyle

Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field. — Matthea Harvey

Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem. — Conrad Hall

A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what subjects it should address. — Matthea Harvey

Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree. — Rob Bignell, Editor

Flowers wither knowing that you exist. — Timothy Joshua

As long as music survives, poetry will never die. — Michael Bassey Johnson

She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it. — David Nicholls

Life can be like a poem that way, with the unexpected appearing in the room, not just on the page. — Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge

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

Last night your thin walls invited me to the party next door / reminded me I am a quiet person in a quiet life. — Drew Myron

She reminded me that I could write stories,/
could be struck by lightning & live. — Jen Currin

How to Write a Poem
Catch the air
around the butterfly. — Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Write the poem only you can write. — Billy Collins

As we change, our writing changes too. You cannot write the same poem twice. And that's a good thing. — Katerina Stoykova Klemer

For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type. — Tennessee Williams

[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off. — Judith Viorst

The tragedy of love is in its ending,
the blessing - everything else.

No love ever deserves to end. — Akif Kichloo

Poetic success is when you write a poem that makes you excited and bewildered and aglow. — Matthea Harvey

I escape disaster by writing a poem with a joke in it:
The past, present, and future walk into a bar - it was tense. — Kelli Russell Agodon

Many a poem is marred by a superfluous word. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night. — Grace Paley

No poem ever bought a hamburger, or not too many. — Thomas Lux

Every time you write a poem it's apocalyptic. You're revealing who you really are to yourself. — Li-Young Lee

You have made me a love poet. — Kamand Kojouri

A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be encouraged. Your heart is writing a poem on the world and it's being turned into a thousand songs. — Donald Miller

Remember The Poem ... — R.M. Engelhardt

At the end of all things, why do lovers break up?

Because love is magic. You have to believe, for it to exist. — Timothy Joshua

Be still my hand and let the words write themselves upon my heart. Be still my heart and let your pages be filled in silence. — Cristen Rodgers

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

The knowledge that it takes to write a poem gets burnt up in the writing of the poem. — Li-Young Lee

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

I never deny poems when they come; whatever I am doing, whatever I am writing, I lay it aside and attend to the arriving poem. — Amy Lowell

Writing a poem is making music with words and space. — Arnold Adoff

What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like a poem. — Ann Reed

I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of limits of what I know and what I feel. — John Updike

Each piece of writing I undertake, whether a story, novel, play, or poem, begins with an image. — Norman Lock

No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories. — Alice Walker

If you can't be the poet, be the poem. — David Carradine

No. Not really red,
but the color of a rose when it bleeds. — Anne Sexton

Usually form seems to find me in the process of writing a poem, though I have nothing against starting out with the form. — Matthea Harvey

I say, flawless poems do not exist. — Ymatruz

It's a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the person who should have written it. — Anne Sexton

It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one. — Michel De Montaigne

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

There is a difference between a poem and a writing incrusted with a feel of Poetry to fall within range — Mpho Leteng

Even a baby can write a poem. It doesn't guarantee the sale. — Bhavik Sarkhedi

When a woman writes you a poem, she spends time with the gods on your behalf. — Aja Monet

How many great gems were lost to thought
and not put down to pen.
You can but think of just a few
and then they're lost again. — L.F.Young

A single poem, alone
can turn tides
scatter galaxies
and burst forth with rivers
from paradise. — Sanober Khan

Writing a poem doubles, triples the experience or connection that initiated it. — Frances Mayes

From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years old. — Joan Larkin

I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist. — Patti Smith

Writing a poem is discovering. — Robert Frost

Women are a poem of tousled tresses. — Gwen Calvo

I think maybe today a poem I hope
after breakfast I start trying
pulling it out of my own gut
mostly by force — John Thomas Idlet

Everyday begins like a blank chalkboard, on which each one of us can write the poem of our present and our dreams for the future. — Ricky Martin

Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem. — Charles Bukowski

After ten standard months I was done, acknowledging the ancient aphorism to the effect that no book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned. — Dan Simmons

Though we met at the same station,
we were but passing trains;
on parallel lines,
destined to never meet. — Timothy Joshua

Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids. — James Turrell

As you continue writing and rewriting, you begin to see possibilities you hadn't seen before. Writing a poem is always a process of discovery. — Robert Hayden

The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition. — Marvin Bell

I feel most at home when I am writing a poem - because in that instant, I am everywhere. — Nathalie Handal

Blank pages are cruel
Pure torture in white or beige
But how else to start — A.A. Patawaran

Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy. — Mary Ruefle

Someone Should Write Me a Love Poem but I'm Stuck Doing It Myself — Daphne Gottlieb

I love reading poetry, and yet, at this point, the thought of writing a poem, to me, is tantamount to figuring out a trigonometry question. — Jhumpa Lahiri

If I knew how to write a poem, I wouldn't. — James Galvin

Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom. — Robert Frost

Insisting that his writing did not offer a philosophy of life, Hardy claims that each poem was an 'impression', intensely subjective and evanescent. — Geoffrey Harvey

We are all writing God's poem. — Anne Sexton

Often when I write poetry I don't quite know what I'm saying myself. I mean, I can't restate the poem. The meaning of the poem is the poem. — Pattiann Rogers

In poetry, the best way to say cuss words is to hide it behind metaphors. — Ymatruz

While he sweated out a story she bled put a poem. (Dark City Lights) — S.J. Rozan

The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so. — Wallace Stevens

For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything. — Langston Hughes

The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot. — Anne Sexton

Or that writing a poem you can read to no one
is like dancing in the dark. — Ovid

You can't write a poem until you live. — Shannon Lynette

As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem. — Kenneth Rexroth

You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway. — Robert Bly