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Love doesn't make you a poet; it makes you poetry. — Yarro Rai

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

It sounds old-fashioned to say, but we have some kind of purpose for being here, not poets or writers, but all of us humans. — Pattiann Rogers

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

It is very difficult to win. It's not in my script. — Louise Gluck

i am infinitely yearning
brimming
and overflowing
in words

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

I waited for the seasons of love to pass from this cold winter to the summer heat I dreamed of. — Shannon L. Alder

Hope is a most beautiful drug. — Jeremy Mercer

And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets? — Michel De Montaigne

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 talk of plans that are going to happen.
we talk of the future, as if we know we will last.

there is a sort of comfort in that. — AVA.

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

99% of natural poets discovered their talents through love letters. — Michael Bassey Johnson

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

All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.' — Sonia Sanchez

When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers. — Peter Coyote

may
this poetry
be the home
you will someday
come back to. — Sanober Khan

Most people don't have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for them. — Brandi L. Bates

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it. — Stephen Sondheim

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

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

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

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

Only the writers can change or fix the past by going back to edit old works — Munia Khan

And everyone wants to read the poem
we're afraid to write. — Kelli Russell Agodon

When one would ask most modern artists, poets, writers and other status quo fueled semi-intellectuals who Machiavelli was - was that an opera singer? — Martijn Benders

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

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

Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers. — Henry R. Luce

The distinction between poets and prose writers is a vulgar error. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Junior writers $300; Minor poets - $500 a week; Broken novelists - $850-1000; One play dramatists - $1500; Sucks - $2000. Wits - $2500. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Poetry has saved me on occasions when people couldn't. — Sanober Khan

I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce. — Grace Paley

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

When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever. — Ben Harper

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

I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers. — Francine Prose

I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can. — Friedrich Nietzsche

i write
because

it is
the only way

i can
reach you. — Sanober Khan

A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before. — Brandi L. Bates

Everywhere the poems open. — Mary Kinzie

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

Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them. — Ellen J. Barrier

We hold on to poetry because it lights a fire in our soul and keeps our bodies warm. — Sanober Khan

I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers. — Sylvia Plath

Artistes breathe and dream creativity! — Avijeet Das

Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language. — Natasha Trethewey