Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Beware of advice-even this.
When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song Let the writing on your face be a smell of apple orchards on late June.
Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.
Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.
Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.
All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began my first novel and after the five years, lacking a month, I took to finish it, I was still traveling, still a seeker.
I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.
I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me.
Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Every day we present the best quotes! Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends
or simply: