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• I've been writing songs since I was like six or seven. I've been writing poetry and short stories and stuff, but my first serious, serious song, I wrote when I was fourteen.

  Gabrielle Aplin

  Song, Writing, Stories

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• I've always just liked writing poetry, but it's much later that I've discovered that there's this whole poetry world out there, that you almost have to be accepted into, like this little club.

  Victoria Chang

  Writing, World, Clubs

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Steve Earle

  Writing, Years, People

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

  Robert Morgan

  Writing, Thinking, Fiction

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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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• Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

  Theodor Adorno

  Writing, Poetry, Auschwitz

  Theodor W. Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann (2003). “Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader”, p.15, Stanford University Press

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Renzo Piano

  Art, Writing, Past

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• 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.

  Margaret Atwood

  Running, Writing, Appreciate

  "Margaret Atwood : Writing Philosophy". Waterstone's Poetry Lecture, Delivered At Hay On Wye, canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca. June 1995.

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• 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.

  C. K. Williams

  Writing, Waiting, Ordinary

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