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Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate. — Raymond Carver

Few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you, is a cold bed. — Stanley Kunitz

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

i am infinitely yearning
brimming
and overflowing
in words

i discover
it's another way
for me
to be in tears. — Sanober Khan

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

For poets that have had my luck,
Seldom write when they can kiss. — Alex Comfort

Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry. — Julian Barnes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 easier a thing is to write then the more the writer gets paid for writing it. (And vice versa: ask the poets at the bus stop.) — Martin Amis

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

Poets find truth by writing about what they love. — Susan Cooper

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

some words
bring warmth
just by
being
next to each other. — Sanober Khan

poetry. i am not writing it.
(make way for me please)
it is my skin. dripping with light. — Sanober Khan

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

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them — George Bernard Shaw

Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well. — Anne Waldman

Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves. — Marita Golden

when i write of you, my dear
i am holding you
in the most
exquisite
ways. — Sanober Khan

Poets, like fighters, both reap the benefits of roadwork. — Cameron Conaway

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

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

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

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

All Poets are mad. — Robert Burton

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

Everywhere the poems open. — Mary Kinzie

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

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

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

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