Quotes About Writing

It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of the poems that only you can write.

But, that was the beginning, though I didn't start writing until I was in high school and when I was in high school I really began to write poetry with great energy and enthusiasm.

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

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

I wrote a lot of poetry in the last two years of high school, all about the same girl I was in love with. That was pretty awful. Did you know that in poetry, every line does not need to rhyme?

Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.

think what you hope for is that at different times of your life you're able to write the poetry that reflects the moment that you're in on your own journey.

I write, but I don't write poetry. I don't rhyme or anything like that.

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

I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.

Why then we should drop into poetry.

I really came to literature through poetry.

That's a rather flippant quote "drinking and writing bad poetry" from me. I mean, I said it, but I was doing other stuff too. I certainly didn't manage the full stretch of four years.

Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

Novels are almost like music or poetry - they just come to me in simple sentences, whereas I think my pieces get more and more complex ever since I've started using a computer.

I don't write poetry for the page because my inclination in that area is satisfied by songwriting. "Ornamental Hermit" was a comparatively effortless song to write, which is rare for me.

Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.

The more rhymethere isin poetry the more dangerof its tricking the writer into something other than the urge in the beginning.

I love to write poetry.

When I'm most deeply involved in my writing, sometimes I do dream about poetry, and occasionally I wake up from a dream with a phrase that I like well enough to put it in a poem.

Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry.

I was so used to doing art that my fingers were like albino spiders. So it was just natural for me to go to a typewriter and write poetry.

Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose.