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The master said You must write what you see.
But what I see does not move me.
The master answered Change what you see. — Louise Gluck
But what I see does not move me.
The master answered Change what you see. — Louise Gluck
A man of few words,
I just sit still on this hill,
I know death will persist,
I write when my mind is still,
I bleed daily to exist. — P.J. Bayliss
I just sit still on this hill,
I know death will persist,
I write when my mind is still,
I bleed daily to exist. — P.J. Bayliss
I was asked once why I write poetry. I said, why do you breath?
— Shannon Lynette
I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
— Felix Dennis
This poem was meant
to be unwritten.
But I am writing it now
and have thereby changed
destiny. — Kamand Kojouri
to be unwritten.
But I am writing it now
and have thereby changed
destiny. — Kamand Kojouri
Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.
— David Duchovny
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
I always read poetry before I write, to sensitize me to the rhythms and music of language.
— Janet Fitch
I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.
— Bobby McFerrin
This is why I write. Because poetry begins where death is robbed of the last word.
— Odysseus Elytis
I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.
— Colin Quinn
Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry.
— Evangeline Lilly
I'd rather write poetry than watch TV it allows me to share the wide screen in me.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
She was the reason I started to write but her beauty is kept me writing.
— Brandon Villasenor
Every afternoon, I shut the door of my bedroom to write: Poetry was secret, dangerous, wicked and delicious.
— Donald Hall
As I published books, I realized, that's not really what I want. I don't care about the books as much anymore. I just want to write poetry.
— Victoria Chang
But now that I'm scrubbing
toilets on my hands & knees,
with four degrees,
I realize that one escape route
leads to another — Phil Volatile
toilets on my hands & knees,
with four degrees,
I realize that one escape route
leads to another — Phil Volatile
I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.
— Andrew Bird
I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry.
— Anthony Mackie
I often read poetry to 'warm up' before I write.
— Amity Gaige
Stop the tape, cut the paper! I will just write another poem and grab a microphone and push record again!
— Delano Johnson
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
Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.
— Steve Earle
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 can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.
— Irrfan Khan
You were the poem I never knew how to write because no words could describe the wind you cannot see, but feel.
— Shannon L. Alder
She's brim full of poetry - actualized poetry, if I may use the expression. She lives what paper-poets only write ...
— Thomas Hardy
I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it.
— Gary Shteyngart
What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.
— Marianne Moore
I wanna make growing old with you
the last poem I ever have to write — Michael Biondi
the last poem I ever have to write — Michael Biondi
I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.
— Maxine Kumin
Whenever I write a dramatic poem I can't understand why the characters should ever want to be anything but poets themselves.
— Saul Bellow
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 write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.
— Ellen Hopkins
I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals. Preferably big ones.
— Donald Trump
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 have to reach "the poetry condition" to write. Then it is as if the border around me is thinned or blurred or erased or disappeared or dead.
— Kim Hyesoon
Sometimes I write a line and it fills me with self doubt. Sometimes I write a line and its poetry reduces me to tears.
— Sandra J. Jackson
I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection.
— Neil Gaiman
I guess the quality that makes one write poetry keeps one from selling it.
— Louise Closser Hale
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
You fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought ...
— John Geddes
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
— Judith Rodriguez
I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.
— Annie Lennox
I write poetry to heal pieces of me
time as missed. — Kiana Davis
time as missed. — Kiana Davis
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.
— Patti Smith
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
— Dejan Stojanovic
I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the confidence to write poetry.
— Christopher Koch
Poetry is given to the poet. I don't think a poet can sit down at will and write. If he does, nothing worthwhile can come of it.
— Jorge Luis Borges
I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.
— Aleksandar Hemon
I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.
— Paul Dirac
I used to only write poetry; now I live it. I finally matured enough to starve my hypocrisy to death.
— Steve Maraboli
Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.
— Misha Collins
Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won't.
— Dorianne Laux
the one who arrives after you will remind me love is supposed to be soft he will taste like the poetry i wish i could write
— Rupi Kaur
I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words.
— Kurt Cobain
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
i write
because
it is
the only way
i can
reach you. — Sanober Khan
because
it is
the only way
i can
reach you. — Sanober Khan
I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.
— David Antin
I don't write poetry when I wish, I write when I can't, when my larynx is flooded and my throat is shut.
— Anna Kamienska
I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest.
— John Updike
I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.
— Carol Ann Duffy
I write because there are things in me that cannot die.
— Sanober Khan
I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.
— Candace Bushnell
Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.
— Charles Bukowski
If you grow corn or trade in pigs or write poetry then you go to Iowa City." "That's why I haven't been.
— Ann Patchett
The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.
— Seamus Heaney
I don't want to because boys don't write poetry. Girls do.
— Sharon Creech
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
I can write jingles all day long but the best sensation is your own heart's song!
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Often when I write poetry I don't quite know what I'm saying myself. I mean, I can't restate the poem. The meaning of the poem is the poem.
— Pattiann Rogers
I love to write poetry.
— Shayne Ward
I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan.
— Rita Mae Brown
It's really rather easy to write eighth-century Chinese poetry," said Angus Lordie. "In English, of course. It requires little effort, I find.
— Alexander McCall Smith
I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.
— Sally Phillips
If I wouldn't of spent so much time shooting spit wads at my English teacher I'd know how to punctuate good thing I normally write poetry.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
I do not write to you, but of you,/because the paper that we write on/is our perishable skin.
— Melissa Lee-Houghton
Poetry allows me to write about what I don't know, whereas journalism demands a higher level of certainty to be worthy of being written.
— Eliza Griswold