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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
can turn tides
scatter galaxies
and burst forth with rivers
from paradise. — Sanober Khan
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