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Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate.
— Raymond Carver
It sounds old-fashioned to say, but we have some kind of purpose for being here, not poets or writers, but all of us humans.
— Pattiann Rogers
He would write and write. He would make wonderful things happen. Some of it would be true. All of it would be true. Most of it would be true.
— Kate DiCamillo
It is very difficult to win. It's not in my script.
— Louise Gluck
i am infinitely yearningbrimming
and overflowing
in words
i discover
it's another way
for me
to be in tears. — Sanober Khan
I waited for the seasons of love to pass from this cold winter to the summer heat I dreamed of.
— Shannon L. Alder
Hope is a most beautiful drug.
— Jeremy Mercer
And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?
— Michel De Montaigne
Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.
— Julian Barnes
As long as music survives, poetry will never die.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
99% of natural poets discovered their talents through love letters.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'
— Sonia Sanchez
When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.
— Peter Coyote
may this poetry
be the home
you will someday
come back to. — Sanober Khan
Most people don't have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for them.
— Brandi L. Bates
Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.
— Stephen Sondheim
That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them
— George Bernard Shaw
some words bring warmth
just by
being
next to each other. — Sanober Khan
And everyone wants to read the poem we're afraid to write. — Kelli Russell Agodon
When one would ask most modern artists, poets, writers and other status quo fueled semi-intellectuals who Machiavelli was - was that an opera singer?
— Martijn Benders
poetry. i am not writing it.(make way for me please)
it is my skin. dripping with light. — Sanober Khan
Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers.
— Henry R. Luce
The distinction between poets and prose writers is a vulgar error.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.
— Sara Sheridan
Junior writers $300; Minor poets - $500 a week; Broken novelists - $850-1000; One play dramatists - $1500; Sucks - $2000. Wits - $2500.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Poetry has saved me on occasions when people couldn't.
— Sanober Khan
I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce.
— Grace Paley
When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever.
— Ben Harper
I write because there are things in me that cannot die.
— Sanober Khan
I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
i writebecause
it is
the only way
i can
reach you. — Sanober Khan
A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.
— Brandi L. Bates
Everywhere the poems open.
— Mary Kinzie
Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.
— Ellen J. Barrier
I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers.
— Sylvia Plath
Artistes breathe and dream creativity!
— Avijeet Das
