Quotes About Writing

Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

Writing poetry is a pleasure,...a pleasure out of hell

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.

In a notable family called Stein There were Gertrude, and Ep, and then Ein. Gert's writing was hazy, Ep's statues were crazy, And nobody understood Ein.

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

Those blessed structures, plot and rhyme-- why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled?

McGough: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I've caught poetry. Mr Bones: Oh really? Well, don't worry, sir - I used to suffer from short stories. McGough: Really? When? Mr Bones: Oh, once upon a time...

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

Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme / My barmie noddle's working prime.

If i write a book it will probably be a book about how not to use the internet or a book of poetry.

In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice.

A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.

I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

Now that I have written many words, and let out so many loves, for so many, and been altogether what I always was a woman of excess, of zeal and greed, I find the effort useless.

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.

The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.

You can't write poetry on the computer.

When Rimbaud became a slave trader, he stopped writing poetry.

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

I was really artistic. I did a lot of poetry, a lot of writing.

I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.