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“When I came into consciousness as a writer when I was in my early 20s, I just assumed that a writer did - a poet writer did everything all at once. I would write poetry, and while writing poetry I would also write work in the world - if I could get into the world.”

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Author:W. S. Di Piero

“For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry.”

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Author:David Biespiel

“I've been writing fiction as long as I've been writing poetry. It's just that the poetry took off, and it took me a lot longer to figure out how to write a story.”

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Author:Barbara Hamby

“Writing is a bit like walking into a big bookstore. It's the bookstore of your brain, and you know you're never going to read all those books. It makes you happy you're in the bookstore, and you're nervous because you know you're never going to read all those books. So the nervousness is also happy. Once I get going writing poetry is one of the happiest things I do, but it is also fraught with all of these anxieties.”

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Author:Mary Jo Salter

“I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.”

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Author:Robert Morgan

“He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.”

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Book:The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).

Source: The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).

“On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.”

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Author:Hu Shih

“Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.”

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Book:Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader

Source: Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader

“Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?”

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Book:Orlando: A Biography

Source: Orlando: A Biography

“What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise, and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself- a voice answering a voice.”

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Book:Orlando: A Biography

Source: Orlando: A Biography

“Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.”

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Book:The Prince of Tides: A Novel

Source: The Prince of Tides: A Novel

“Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial pools, and slow clouds sailed harmoniously above the willow. May came too soon, and suddenly unable to bear walls, he wandered the campus at all hours through starlight and rain.”

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“It would be inappropiate, undignified, at 38, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour or intensity of a 22 year old. Falling in love like that? Writing poetry? Crying at pop songs? Dragging people into photobooths? Taking a whole day to make a compilation tape? Asking people if they wanted to share your bed, just for company? If you quoted Bob Dylan or TS Eliot or, god forbid, Brecht at someone these days they would smile politely and step quietly backwards, and who would blame them? Ridiculous, at 38, to expect a song or book or film to change your life.”

“But if a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer "writer" for fear that he may go on to ask me what I write, and to answer "poetry" would embarrass us both, for we both know that nobody can earn a living simply by writing poetry.”

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Author:W. H. Auden

“She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.”

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Author:David Nicholls

“Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something that, though it may not be for everybody, is about everybody.”

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Author:Richard Wilbur

“The real you is still a little child who never grew up. Sometimes that little child comes out when you are having fun or playing, when you feel happy, when you are painting, or writing poetry, or playing the piano, or expressing yourself in some way. These are the happiest moments of your life - when the real you comes out, when you don't care about the past and you don't worry about the future. You are childlike.”

“Writing poetry is a state of free float.”

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Book:Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood

Source: Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood

“Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.”

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Book:Airing Dirty Laundry

Source: Airing Dirty Laundry

“The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.”

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Author:James Fenton

“Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.”

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Author:Stephen Spender

“Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.”

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Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere and keep on working until the work is done... I bet there isn't a single highly successful person who has not depended on grit. Nobody is talented enough to not have to work hard, and that's what grit allows you to do.”

“Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry”

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Author:Ted Nelson

“Writing poetry is a pleasure,...a pleasure out of hell”

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Author:Kenneth Slessor

“I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.”

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Author:Shelby Foote

“But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.”

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Author:Jeffery Deaver

“We're running into a lot of new problems today because of what we emphasize in this culture. The word 'success' to the average person means earning a lot of money and having a home, two cars, children in college. Success to me is entirely different to what success is to the average person. Success is being a successful human being in terms of pursuing what you believe in. If you believe in making paintings, writing poetry, writing music. If this is what you really want, you're successful to yourself. But to be successful to your culture means to sell yourself short of what you really want”

“Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.”

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Author:Wislawa Szymborska

“One of the ways in which I feel close to God is writing poetry.”

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Author:Christian Wiman

“Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.”

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Author:Jack Prelutsky

“Composing computer programs to solve scientific problems is like writing poetry. You must choose every word with care and link it with the other words in perfect syntax. There is no place for verbosity or carelessness. To become fluent in a computer lnaguage demands almost the antithesis of modern loose thinking. It requires many interactive sessions, the hands-on use of the device. You do not learn a foreign language from a book, rather you have to live in the country for year to let the langauge become an automatic part of you, and the same is true for computer languages.”

“Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.”

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Author:Alice Notley

“Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that.”

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Author:Steve Earle

“In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice.”

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Author:Li-Young Lee

“A banker warned the British poet Robert Graves that one could not grow rich writing poetry. He replied that if there was no money in poetry, there was certainly no poetry in money, and so it was all even.”

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Author:Robert Graves

“When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.”

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Author:Umberto Eco

“I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people.”

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Author:Maya Angelou

“In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up - grabbing things, taking not only from architecture but from Italy, art, writing, poetry, music.”

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Author:Renzo Piano

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.”

“I no longer feel I'll be dead by thirty; now it's sixty. I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really a way of saying we appreciate time, and want to use all of it. I'm still writing, I'm still writing poetry, I still can't explain why, and I'm still running out of time.”

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Author:Margaret Atwood

“Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.”

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Author:C. K. Williams

“A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.”

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Author:Mark Strand

“Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am going to try it; and am going to test, in the most rigid way I know, the awful question whether it is my vocation.”

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Author:Sidney Lanier

“Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to say that writing poetry after Auschwitz is impossible.”

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Author:Theodor Adorno