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Poems are never finished - just abandoned
— Paul Valery
This poem was meant to be unwritten.
But I am writing it now
and have thereby changed
destiny. — Kamand Kojouri
I used to write poems more when I was younger, but I haven't in a long time. I just write ideas and paragraphs and go from there.
— Kacey Musgraves
I started writing poetry and philosophy when I was 17 years old and my mind so was wild. Now I'm 56 and I often want to write like a child.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
This winter, there will be no voices, no glimpses, no arms.only the fabric of poetry, to keep me warm. — Sanober Khan
Lineation can make your break your poems.
— Katerina Stoykova Klemer
He does not write at all whose poems no man reads
— Marcus Aurelius
The poems are part of my attempt to understand being in the world in an honest way.
— Dan Beachy-Quick
my poetry is merely a body.you are the soul in my words. — Sanober Khan
I like to joke that I started writing long poems out the anxiety over ending and starting poems. It just seemed easier to keep going.
— Alison Hawthorne Deming
Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class.
— Matt De La Pena
I guess that would have been 1968. I was a freshman in college and I wasn't writing good poems, but I was at least trying to write poems then.
— Edward Hirsch
Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.
— Alice Walker
I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines.
— Richard Grossman
A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what subjects it should address.
— Matthea Harvey
Poetic justice, poetic justice.. if I told you that a flower bloom in a dark room would you trust it. I mean I write poems in these songs.
— Kendrick Lamar
As long as music survives, poetry will never die.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
I prefer the absurdity of writing poemsto the absurdity of not writing poems. — Wislawa Szymborska
The only thing I remember writing in prison is a couple of poems for an inmate magazine they did once a year.
— Patricia McConnell
I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good poems.
— Edward Hirsch
My earliest poems appear almost skeletal to me now - it seems I've learned to add meat, muscle and a nice suit of clothes.
— Wanda Lea Brayton
The spoken word community was significant in making me want to write accessible and urgent poems. Bob Holman, in particular, was an impressive figure.
— Denise Duhamel
As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
It's not easy to write a poem about a poem.
— Dejan Stojanovic
I write a book of poems and then the characters won't go away so I write a play from that.
— Grace Cavalieri
I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process.
— George Murray
I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser stuff for writing.
— Patti Smith
I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.
— Nikki Giovanni
Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays ... plays in which I had the starring part.
— Francine Pascal
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
But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.
— Sylvia Plath
I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.
— Donald Hall
For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole. For grownups: I'm writing poems.
— Kate DiCamillo
Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.
— Hans Christian Andersen
I had hoped to be a poet, and for a long time I tried to write poetry. My first published pieces were poems.
— Norman Lock
Your poems are of interest to mankind; your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to you.
— Fernando Pessoa
If I wasn't writing poems, I'd be washing my hands all the time.
— Sherman Alexie
To write good poems is the secret of brevity.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
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
Poems are invisible flowers on my skin.
— Sanober Khan
I say, flawless poems do not exist.
— Ymatruz
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
— Dejan Stojanovic
I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.
— May Sarton
She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
To write well it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply. Good poems are the best teachers.
— Mary Oliver
I write poems to find out why I write them
— Stephen Dobyns
Since the age of 11, I have loved writing poems and fragments from my life.
— Niki De St. Phalle
For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything.
— Langston Hughes
all the wordsall the poems
know
my warm, soft spots. — Sanober Khan
Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can't imagine living without it.
— Zephyr Teachout
Everywhere the poems open.
— Mary Kinzie
Remember,a stranger once told you that the breeze
here is something worth writing poems about. — Shinji Moon
poems are small moments of enlightenment
— Natalie Goldberg
Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.
— Jack Nicholson
I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13.
— Kevin Powers
Traveling down a road of self-destructionWith no room for any reconstruction — Jessica-Lynn Barbour
I think I've been writing black poems all along, wearing my white mask. I'm always the victim ... but no longer!
— Anne Sexton
Whether they write poems or don't write poems, poets are best.
— Randall Jarrell
He kisses like a poet. Like he's writing poems on my lips.
— Veronica Rossi
On pristine parchment I draw with my skis calligraphic lines of joy, writing poems of movement.
— Patricia Robin Woodruff
In her room at the prow of the houseWhere light breaks,
and the windows are tossed with linden,
My daughter is writing a story.. — Wesley Banks
The ear writes my poems, not the mind.
— Stanley Kunitz
I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
— Robert Penn Warren
I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.
— Bernardo Bertolucci
I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.
— Maxine Kumin
I think it's better if you write poems that look like you.
— Richard Hugo
...I am writing these poems from inside a lion...
— Shel Silverstein
Someone Should Write Me a Love Poem but I'm Stuck Doing It Myself
— Daphne Gottlieb
I started writing after the death of my grandfather - memories, poems, etc. It was very personal; for years I did not share my writing with anyone.
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
There's two kinds of womenthose you write poems about and those you don't. — Jeffrey McDaniel
