Writing Poetry Quotes - Page 4

• Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.

  Aaron Belz

  Teaching, Writing, Ideas

  "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

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• women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time. ... Women, then, have not had a dog's chance of writing poetry. That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one's own.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dog, Stress, Writing

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.141

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

  Christian Wiman

  Writing, Way, Feels

  "Poet Christian Wiman on Love, Faith, and Cancer". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. February 23, 2012.

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• When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float.

  Margaret Atwood

  Believe, Writing, Fiction

  Margaret Atwood (2006). “Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood”

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• At times of crisis or distress, it's poems that people turn to. (Poetry) still has a power to speak to people's feelings, maybe in a way that fiction, because it works in a longer way, can't. There's a little bit of your brain that mourns and grieves that you're not writing poetry, but actually as long as I'm writing something, I'm happy.

  Blake Morrison

  Writing, Grieving, Long

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• Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.

  Peter Porter

  Writing, Giving, Satisfaction

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• ...after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door.

  Wallace Stevens

  Writing, Night, Doors

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• I do many kinds of work, and if you forbid me from binding books, from gardening, from writing poetry, from practicing walking meditation, from teaching children, I will be very unhappy. To me, work is pleasant. Pleasant or unpleaseant depends on our way of looking.

  Nhat Hanh

  Children, Book, Teaching

  Thich Nhat Hanh “Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings”, Orbis Books

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• I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier than writing poetry. So maybe my brain clings to it.

  Shane McCrae

  Writing, Brain, Easier

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Poems are ways of saying you clearly remember the day of your death and your tomb. When I am writing poetry, I relive my days when a woman inside me dies many times.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Writing, Way, Remember

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• People have a very limited idea of what being creative is - playing the guitar or the flute or writing poetry - so people go on writing rubbish in the name of poetry. You have to find out what you can do and what you cannot do. Everybody cannot do everything. You have to search and find your destiny. You have to grope in the dark, I know. It is not very clear-cut what your destiny is, but that's how life is. And it is good that one has to search for it - in the very search, something grows.

  Rajneesh

  Writing, Cutting, Dark

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• I don't want to write poems that are just really clear about how I'm aware of all the traps involved in writing poetry; I don't want to write fiction that's about the irresponsibility of writing fiction and I've thrown out a lot of writing that I think was ultimately tainted by that kind of self-awareness.

  Ben Lerner

  Writing, Thinking, Self

  Interview with Tao Lin, www.believermag.com. 2014.

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• 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.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Girl, Writing, Doe

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• 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.

  David Nicholls

  Writing, Sleepovers, Wasting Time

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• Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.

  Pat Conroy

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.40, Open Road Media

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• 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.

  Richard Wilbur

  Writing, Self, Talking

  "Richard Wilbur, Winner of the 1957 Poetry Award for Things of This World". Acceptance Speech, www.nationalbook.org. 1957.

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• 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.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Children, Fun, Real

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

  Ted Nelson

  Writing, Design, Program

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• Writing poetry is a pleasure,...a pleasure out of hell

  Kenneth Slessor

  Writing, Hell, Pleasure

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• 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.

  Shelby Foote

  Writing, Hands, Trying

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• 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.

  W. H. Auden

  Writing, Answers, Goes On

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• I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper.

  Erica Jong

  Moving, Teaching, Writing

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• 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.

  Hu Shih

  Writing, July, America

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• Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Voice, Secret

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.306, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Umberto Eco

  Writing, Remember, Poet

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