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He would write and write. He would make wonderful things happen. Some of it would be true. All of it would be true. Most of it would be true. — Kate DiCamillo

Writing poetry is supernatural. Or, it should be. — Katerina Stoykova Klemer

CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager. — Ambrose Bierce

It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world. — Sanober Khan

We write to go on living, after we have died. — Jenim Dibie

Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance. — Jean Anouilh

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

A chronic poet should always be an inveterate nature-lover. — Munia Khan

I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations. — Simone Muench

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings. — Carol Ann Duffy

Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets say what they think they should feel. — Alvaro De Campos

How....will I ever truly depict you?
You're perfect, my writing isn't. — Sanober Khan

The grocery store poets do everything they can to encourage us in our willing suspension of disbelief. — Michael Pollan

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way. — Charles Bukowski

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

As I read you I fell in love with the holes between your words and I loved you most on the days you could not love yourself. — Jenim Dibie

All Poets are mad. — Robert Burton

Every writer should know their target. Aim for the heart ~ hit that and all which follows is sheer ecstasy. — Muse

If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn't write a single word, but that would be tragic. — Dejan Stojanovic

Feckless Fixation [10w]
Poets worry too much about other poets instead of writing. — Beryl Dov

He was one of those poets who escaped the terrors of writing by writing all the time. — James Baldwin

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

Poets are sultans, if they had their will; For every author would his brother kill. — Roger Boyle, 1st Earl Of Orrery

I am the poet, you are the poem; I hold the pen, you are the words, love is the ink, silence is the blank page. — Jenim Dibie

Contemporary poets got so obscure that poetry kind of fell out of favor, — Paul Ruffin

Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Living in a state of psychic unrest, in a Borderland, is what makes poets write and artists create. — Gloria E. Anzaldua

I write to forget the days that broke me into a million nights. — Jenim Dibie

Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that. — Robert Morgan

And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have. — Elizabeth Bishop

The pen, a double-edged mystery: cuts the writer, heals the reader. — Jenim Dibie

We have conversations with each other most nights - Sylvia Plath and me! — Avijeet Das

Poets and writers don't live either for money or for fame. And even without any recognition for their work they keep on writing! — Avijeet Das

The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more. — Sara Sheridan

Poets should never stop writing, because their words could be a powerful inspiration to someone else, whether it be now or 100 years from today. — Delano Johnson

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

The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot. — W. H. Auden

I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are
the real boundaries. — Katy Lederer

Poets only write the truth. — Shannon Lynette

I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it. — Mary Oliver

Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away! — Phyllis Bottome

What we have now, shall never be again. The poets of the past sit in amazement of the wanna-be's of an era long gone. — T. Grassan

Many poets ... write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia. — Randall Jarrell

When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets ... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all. — Jack Prelutsky

Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets. — Democritus

Everywhere the poems open. — Mary Kinzie

I write because there are things in me that cannot die. — Sanober Khan

Traveling down a road of self-destruction
With no room for any reconstruction — Jessica-Lynn Barbour

I don't write very much about penises. More than some poets but not perhaps as much as I should. — Rachel Zucker

Whether they write poems or don't write poems, poets are best. — Randall Jarrell

i write
because

it is
the only way

i can
reach you. — Sanober Khan

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

Inside is where we meet everyone else; it's on the outside that we are truly alone. — Charles Simic

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems. — Robert Morgan

Some of my favorite poets had a tremendous sense of whimsy, so it's a writing style I guess I admire. — Jewel

As far as me and fame, from my creations I'll be dead and famous long before I know it. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets. — Umberto Eco

Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water. — Robert Frost