“It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But deeper into each and every piece, you no longer hesitate to call it work. It's passion. A poet's sense of lyrical accomplishment is then his food and water, his means of survival.” IfsWritingMeanPassionFunWaterPiecesTreePoetSurvivalDeeperAccomplishmentWorking ItClimbingPuzzlesLyrical Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“The Church has lost a great religious poet in me; but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so the loss is even.” LostFunChurchReligiousLossPoetInfinityGreat Religious Book:The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner Source: The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner
“There's nothing wrong with delighting in what you do. In fact, most of the fun you'll have as a poet will come about during the process of writing.” WritingFactsFunProcessPoet Author:Ted Kooser
“It's fun to see someone grow as a writer, moving from their first workshopped poems to publishing their earliest poems to having a book accepted for publication. It's great to see poets with persistence succeed.” FirstsBookMovingFunGrowsPoetSucceedAcceptedPersistencePublishingPublication Author:Allison Joseph
“Working with artists and other poets has made me aware that there was a bigger "me" that I hadn't been quite aware of. Plus we had a good time. It's so much fun to write, for example, with a big brush on a giant piece of paper and to help create visually attractive and surprising objects, which is not what you normally do when you're writing a poem. It's wonderful to create these pieces with artists.” WritingHelpingArtistFunWonderfulPoetAttractiveGood TimesHad A Good Time Author:Ron Padgett
“Italian is a very different poetic situation and there are these hard and fast rhythmic periods, settenari, ottonari of seven and eight syllables. These are fundamental to the way people speak and write and breaking them is more radical in Italian than when we break a line. I'm sure there are Italian poets who want to write poetry as prose and break these Petrarchan rules. And breaking them is fun and a valid thing to do. But I'm more interested in trying to write poetry that absorbs tradition and uses it in new ways, and doesn't throw it out.” PeopleWritingTryingDifferentSpeakFunSituationBreakPoetTraditionSevenRadicalProsePoeticItalian Author:Jonathan W. Galassi