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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

There's times when one play makes the whole difference, one calls makes the whole difference. And tonight it was that call. — Johan Santana

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

Hollywood is a door leading to a thousand doors — Kensington Roth

Come, you drunken spirits. Come, you battalions. You fields of ghosts who walk these green plains still. Come, you giants! — Jez Butterworth

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

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

It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have. — Matt Groening

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Allowing yourself to be vulnerable makes you weak but also opens you to the nuances of beauty ... — John Geddes

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

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

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

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

She doesn't have anyone. For reasons we cannot comprehend, the Good Lord doesn't always reward us during our lifetime. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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

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

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

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

You don't need a provocateur,
if demon's been there within you. — Toba Beta

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

He spent too much time mourning what could have been and questioning what should be. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It's complicated."
"Yes, until someone explains it to you! — Fredrik Backman

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

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

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