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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
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Few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you, is a cold bed.
— Stanley Kunitz
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
i am infinitely yearningbrimming
and overflowing
in words
i discover
it's another way
for me
to be in tears. — Sanober Khan
Writing poetry is supernatural. Or, it should be.
— Katerina Stoykova Klemer
CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager.
— Ambrose Bierce
Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.
— Julian Barnes
We write to go on living, after we have died.
— Jenim Dibie
Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
— Jean Anouilh
As long as music survives, poetry will never die.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations.
— Simone Muench
Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
— Carol Ann Duffy
I am the poet, you are the poem; I hold the pen, you are the words, love is the ink, silence is the blank page.
— Jenim Dibie
The grocery store poets do everything they can to encourage us in our willing suspension of disbelief.
— Michael Pollan
Living in a state of psychic unrest, in a Borderland, is what makes poets write and artists create.
— Gloria E. Anzaldua
Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Poets are sultans, if they had their will; For every author would his brother kill.
— Roger Boyle, 1st Earl Of Orrery
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
— Dejan Stojanovic
He was one of those poets who escaped the terrors of writing by writing all the time.
— James Baldwin
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Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.
— Robert Morgan
And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.
— Elizabeth Bishop
Poets find truth by writing about what they love.
— Susan Cooper
some words bring warmth
just by
being
next to each other. — Sanober Khan
poetry. i am not writing it.(make way for me please)
it is my skin. dripping with light. — Sanober Khan
As I read you I fell in love with the holes between your words and I loved you most on the days you could not love yourself.
— Jenim Dibie
That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them
— George Bernard Shaw
Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.
— Anne Waldman
Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves.
— Marita Golden
Poets, like fighters, both reap the benefits of roadwork.
— Cameron Conaway
I don't write very much about penises. More than some poets but not perhaps as much as I should.
— Rachel Zucker
The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.
— Sara Sheridan
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
It's not easy to write a poem about a poem.
— Dejan Stojanovic
I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing arethe real boundaries. — Katy Lederer
Poets only write the truth.
— Shannon Lynette
I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it.
— Mary Oliver
Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!
— Phyllis Bottome
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
Many poets ... write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia.
— Randall Jarrell
When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets ... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.
— Jack Prelutsky
I write because there are things in me that cannot die.
— Sanober Khan
Traveling down a road of self-destructionWith no room for any reconstruction — Jessica-Lynn Barbour
All Poets are mad.
— Robert Burton
Whether they write poems or don't write poems, poets are best.
— Randall Jarrell
i writebecause
it is
the only way
i can
reach you. — Sanober Khan
A single poem, alonecan turn tides
scatter galaxies
and burst forth with rivers
from paradise. — Sanober Khan
As far as me and fame, from my creations I'll be dead and famous long before I know it.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.
— Umberto Eco
Everywhere the poems open.
— Mary Kinzie
If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn't write a single word, but that would be tragic.
— Dejan Stojanovic
People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.
— Charles Bukowski
Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets say what they think they should feel.
— Alvaro De Campos
Remember The Poem ...
— R.M. Engelhardt