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My favorite symphony is the silent song of the night! — Avijeet Das

sometimes i am not sure.
if i am
writing the poem
or the poem
is writing me. — Sanober Khan

The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry. — Sean O Faolain

One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other. — Charles Simic

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

If I were to choose between the power of writing a poem and the ecstasy of a poem unwritten, I would choose the ecstasy. It is better poetry. — Kahlil Gibran

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

The true poem rests between the words. — Vanna Bonta

There is something about writing poetry that brings a man close to the cliff's edge. — Charles Bukowski

Poetry is the beauty of life. — Debasish Mridha

This is why I write. Because poetry begins where death is robbed of the last word. — Odysseus Elytis

Everything has its poetry. 94 — Joseph Joubert

my poetry is merely a body.
you are the soul in my words. — Sanober Khan

Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best? — Jay-Z

I took my first creative writing class when I was 24, then went onto to get a graduate degree in poetry. I've sort of never looked back from there. — Paula McLain

She was the reason I started to write but her beauty is kept me writing. — Brandon Villasenor

All around us is a nothing that stretches on for infinity. We humans can barely comprehend that. If we comprehend it we are rarely pleased. — F.K. Preston

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food? — Joyce Carol Oates

To die with your boots on while writing poetry is not as glorious as riding a horse down Broadway with a stick of dynamite in your teeth, — Charles Bukowski

All I ever really wanted to do was arouse souls through my writing and enjoy my journey to becoming one with myself and with the world. — Terry A. O'Neal

Writing poetry requires frequent visits to the land of the dead. — Marty Rubin

A word a day keeps the psychosis away! — Carol Robi

Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry. — Anthony Mackie

Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing. — Kevin Powers

You cannot spell Poetry without try — Brandon Villasenor

I'm only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me. — May Sarton

My ear is not working, my poetry ear. I can't write a line that doesn't sound like pots and pans falling out of the cupboard. — Jane Kenyon

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry. — Isaac Rosenberg

Last night your thin walls invited me to the party next door / reminded me I am a quiet person in a quiet life. — Drew Myron

She reminded me that I could write stories,/
could be struck by lightning & live. — Jen Currin

She loved me deeply, madly and passionately. She knew no other way! — Avijeet Das

To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry. — Anais Nin

The thing I've learned writing my book is that everyone has the potential to be a poet, and all of our lives are epic. — Jonathan Heatt

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand — Novalis

Only the poet truly understands what is written between the pregnant pauses they create. — Shannon Lynette

I have no doubt at all the Devil grins,
As seas of ink I spatter.
Ye gods, forgive my "literary" sins
The other kind don't matter. — Robert W. Service

Let your heart dance with pen and paper
Now fill the paper with dancing letters. — Debasish Mridha

Poetry is the coronation of literature, and a majestic form of writing. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. — Theodor W. Adorno

When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of. — Cesare Pavese

I was writing poetry, and the Mountain Goats was an outgrowth of that. — John Darnielle

My creativity keeps me from starving. Humanity keeps my life mundane. Loving secures my love for life, but my imagination keeps me sane. — F.K. Preston

People don't gotta like the same stuff. If they did, life would be pretty boring. — Erin Bowman

Tell all the truth but tell it slant. — Emily Dickinson

Poetry can have varied and useful functions; and seduction is apparently something worth writing poetry for. — Shira Wolosky

In poetry we pare down our thoughts into their most graceful shapes, like minimalist sculptures. — Patricia Robin Woodruff

Violence can read like poetry. You just have to describe the act as if you're in love with the way your characters bleed. — F.K. Preston

Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn't know what else to be. — Alice Notley

Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem. — Charles Bukowski

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

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

Dear Hands, I get it. You like writing poetry. But you can't bring a metaphor to a gunfight. — Rudy Francisco

In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice. — Li-Young Lee

Don't strive to sound poetic. Strive to sound genuine in your writing and you will find poetry in the most mundane things in life. — Bobby Hundley

There is a difference between a poem and a writing incrusted with a feel of Poetry to fall within range — Mpho Leteng

He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages. — Christopher Pearse Cranch

I do love writing prose interspersed with the poetry of other people. Their rhythms break into my prose and create a connection. — Pattiann Rogers

I keep thinking about blood, I dream about it. Wake up thinking about it. Pretty soon I'll be writing morbid emo poetry about it. — Cassandra Clare

I write poetry to figure things out. Any time I'm trying to wrap my head around something, poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. — Sarah Kay

I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose. — Jorge Luis Borges

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose. — Sylvia Plath

When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love. — Umberto Eco

... and the most beautiful words ever spoken, I have not yet said to you. — Nazim Hikmet

how these words, wait to die
in the arms of all the poetry..
yet to be written. — Sanober Khan

There are three good things in this world. One is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is to live poetry. — Rupert Brooke

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

Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other. — Sandra Cisneros

I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to write. — Benjamin Clementine

I say, flawless poems do not exist. — Ymatruz

It's not pain. It's raw material. — Jo Bell

I guess the quality that makes one write poetry keeps one from selling it. — Louise Closser Hale

Why can't prose be poetic? — Kevin Focke

I wrote a fair amount of poetry in college. It was really, really bad. I mean, bad. And that's how I found out - by doing it. — John McPhee

Discovery's friend is creativity — Phillip Gary Smith

I keep dying and hoping you notice me. But you're too busy living. — F.K. Preston

How quiet the writing, how noisy the printing. — Marina Tsvetaeva

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

He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written. — George Orwell

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry. — Harry Callahan

I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to conclusions. — Chrisette Michele

The movement
Of the body is
Where poetry
Begins — Clint Catalyst

Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels. — Ben Lerner

Inhale sky. Exhale stars. — Vytautaseneyevich

Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true. — Langston Hughes

Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess. — Robert Adamson

[Marianne Moore's definition of genuine poetry]
Imaginary gardens with real toads in them. — Marianne Moore

I actually can't listen to music and write poetry at the same time, but I do kind of think about the music I've been listening to when I write. — Shane McCrae

Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury! — Jennifer Stone

Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you. — Ellen Bass

It ain't so easy writing about nothin — Patti Smith

Though we met at the same station,
we were but passing trains;
on parallel lines,
destined to never meet. — Timothy Joshua

Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation. — Wislawa Szymborska

I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation. — Derek Walcott

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

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind. — Edward Hirsch

I long for the day I no longer long for him. — Franki Fiori

You write so beautifully
the inside of your mind must be a terrible place — Unknown

Heavy as such things are
After the wordslide, the writing begins."
From "Word Quake — Eileen Granfors